December 2008
Snow...Snow...and more SNOW!!! This was definitely the year we have always wanted but like the saying goes, too much of a good thing sometimes isn't a good thing at all! When the snow first fell it was amazing...a winter wonderland that we always ask for instead of the wet, wet rain! But then is stayed and stayed and stayed, and snowed and snowed and snowed! No one knew what to make of it...the kids loved it...but I was tired of shovelling it and certainly tired of driving in it! But then the magic of snow on Christmas was too great a dream to wish away, and so it was, a beautiful white Christmas!
December always goes by so quickly...the Holidays is something that I look forward to but also dread! Christmas has so many things attached to it...decorating the house, putting up a tree, baking the cookies, shopping for the perfect gifts, figuring out the holiday menu, not to mention planing a b-day party for Cole, which happens to fall on New Years Eve...so planning a New Year's Eve party is pretty much a must! Every year I tell myself to limit the gifts and not to go overboard, but then I end up feeling like a scrooge or something if the kids don't get what they really asked for. In general I am pretty good at steering them in the direction of gifts I want them to get, or at least think they should get, but then there is always the one gift that one of the boys insists on asking for, but is impossible to find, and this in turn, sends me on a frantic race to find it before Christmas is ruined by the gift that never arrived! It's a consumers dream I tell you, prey on the minds of the little kids and then make their parents insane trying to get it to them! Fortunately, I came out the winner of such battles, and in the end, Santa did come through, with flying colors! 
December brought Cole's preschool X-mas concert, which hasn't changed since Jack and Hunter went to preschool and all the other kids 15 years before them! It's always the same songs and the same set up of kids all lined up on the stage being cued to sing, or at least sit still without picking their nose or having a fit. You never really hear a tune but rather screams of words that flow somewhat into a Christmas carol we are all pretty familiar with anyway. They serve jello squares, rice crispie treats and of course a mound of candy that has been glued with sugar to cardboard milk cartons which double as houses. Santa makes an appearance with Mrs. Claus and 500 decorations come off the walls so we can take them home and plaster them somewhere on ours...ohhh the joys! Cole did well, sung his little heart out, even if he didn't really know all the words!
For the past 2 years now, Jack and Hunter's school has put on these amazing musicals that involve the whole school...this year the teachers were too burnt out to do such a lavish production, so it was back to hearing the school band play carols, and listen to an enormous amount of singing acts from each class...All I'll say is that it was painfully good and funny all rolled into one!
Snow...Snow...and more SNOW!!! This was definitely the year we have always wanted but like the saying goes, too much of a good thing sometimes isn't a good thing at all! When the snow first fell it was amazing...a winter wonderland that we always ask for instead of the wet, wet rain! But then is stayed and stayed and stayed, and snowed and snowed and snowed! No one knew what to make of it...the kids loved it...but I was tired of shovelling it and certainly tired of driving in it! But then the magic of snow on Christmas was too great a dream to wish away, and so it was, a beautiful white Christmas!
December always goes by so quickly...the Holidays is something that I look forward to but also dread! Christmas has so many things attached to it...decorating the house, putting up a tree, baking the cookies, shopping for the perfect gifts, figuring out the holiday menu, not to mention planing a b-day party for Cole, which happens to fall on New Years Eve...so planning a New Year's Eve party is pretty much a must! Every year I tell myself to limit the gifts and not to go overboard, but then I end up feeling like a scrooge or something if the kids don't get what they really asked for. In general I am pretty good at steering them in the direction of gifts I want them to get, or at least think they should get, but then there is always the one gift that one of the boys insists on asking for, but is impossible to find, and this in turn, sends me on a frantic race to find it before Christmas is ruined by the gift that never arrived! It's a consumers dream I tell you, prey on the minds of the little kids and then make their parents insane trying to get it to them! Fortunately, I came out the winner of such battles, and in the end, Santa did come through, with flying colors! 
December brought Cole's preschool X-mas concert, which hasn't changed since Jack and Hunter went to preschool and all the other kids 15 years before them! It's always the same songs and the same set up of kids all lined up on the stage being cued to sing, or at least sit still without picking their nose or having a fit. You never really hear a tune but rather screams of words that flow somewhat into a Christmas carol we are all pretty familiar with anyway. They serve jello squares, rice crispie treats and of course a mound of candy that has been glued with sugar to cardboard milk cartons which double as houses. Santa makes an appearance with Mrs. Claus and 500 decorations come off the walls so we can take them home and plaster them somewhere on ours...ohhh the joys! Cole did well, sung his little heart out, even if he didn't really know all the words!
For the past 2 years now, Jack and Hunter's school has put on these amazing musicals that involve the whole school...this year the teachers were too burnt out to do such a lavish production, so it was back to hearing the school band play carols, and listen to an enormous amount of singing acts from each class...All I'll say is that it was painfully good and funny all rolled into one!
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