Catching Up?

Slacker, Slacker, Slacker!! Ayup that's me, anyhow here is the past couple months in a nutshell...I dropped the ball on Valentine's day, Hunter had a basketball tournament, Holley went to Winter Carnival, Hannah turned 18 years old, St. Patrick's Day was not a total bust, and yea I had another birthday, which was also Easter, Hannah, Hope,Hunter and I finished our religious education classes and are now "Official Catholics" and can receive communion , and Hope broke her arm yesterday on a scooter.

Advent & Christmas Season

It's been a super busy Christmas season in this house.  I posted a while back that we had made a countdown calendar with a different activity each day, we have been doing that nightly.  Although some nights due to hectic schedules, late dinners and unplanned meetings we did have to postpone a couple but we are doing well getting each activity done....eventually.  We have been decking our halls and making things cheery around here. 

We have also been lighting our "Advent Wreath" I put that in quotations because I found this really different wrought iron bowl candle holder and I think it has a bit of character, which fits right in at our house.   Each one of the kids reads a prayer before we eat dinner, I made it easy to get them to read the prayers aloud, whoever wants to light the candles has to read.




On December 6th, St. Nicholas delivered clementines, chocolate coins, and candy canes to the kids.  I really wish we had nice wooden clogs to put out, because somehow these shoes look toxic. 

Here are a couple of our other countdown activities, we read the Polar Express, made marshmallows, drank hot chocolate, then watched the movie.  We also read The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett and made reindeer brownies. 







We then decorated the Christmas Tree, read The Legend of the Christmas Tree.  This Advent/Christmas season has been very productive and we are looking forward to the rest of it.

Well I can tell the holidays are coming.  Every year I seem to get slapped in the face with extreme fatigue.  It usually happens right before I need energy to get something done (this week is our extended family's Christmas party).  Here's to hoping energy comes back, I did manage to complete a craft project today that I started a month ago..LOL