Archives for December 2018

The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 20

Today didn’t go as planned and I was busy much of the day. Sophia had some problems and ended up at the pediatrician’s office. Her dental work for tomorrow had to be canceled and we are seeing a neurologist instead. We will be seeing him tomorrow. The hospital will not reschedule her appointment until she is cleared by neurology. 
With everything going on today I was at a loss this afternoon – thinking what we could do as our special thing. I asked some of the kids and Bethany said she would like to draw and cut out paper ornaments for the tree in the kitchen and then let the other kids color them and hang them on the tree. Sounded good to me. So, she got out paper and pencil and scissors and started drawing ornaments and the kids got crayons and colored them. They put twine on them and hung them on our tree in the kitchen. They actually look really nice and the kids were very proud of themselves. I think Bethany was really happy at the way they turned out. Thank goodness she thought of this or we might have missed our day 20 special thing. Only 4 more days to go. 
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The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 19

Today I had a lot going on and didn’t know if we would actually get a special thing done. I was gone several hours getting Sophia’s pre-op done. It took a lot longer than I planned. She is having dental work done on Friday at the hospital. So, by the time I got home I was thinking today would be kind of a flop. But, then the kids asked if they could bring down one more bucket of Christmas books from the attic, and so that was our special thing – a bucket of Christmas books out of the attic. We have so many books that I had decided not to bring all of them down this year, but a lot of our favorites ended up somewhere in the attic so we thought one more bucket might bring down a few more favorites. It did. So, it was small, but it counts. Now the kids are loving having more books to read. 
These are just a few of the books we have out for Christmas. We have collected for so long – I can’t even remember when we started buying a few new books each Christmas. Now we have so many that I buy very few, unless I see a very interesting looking one. I think this year we bought two new ones and both of the books were actually old books that were out of print. We probably have three or four more large buckets up in the attic we have not brought down and probably won’t. 
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