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The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 13

Today our special thing was to order pizza, breadsticks, brownies, cinnamon rolls and make fudge and Rice Krispies Treats and the kids ate while I read and read. We decided we would just make a night of reading and have lots of food and treats. They did enjoy this – especially since we had lots of food. Bethany especially loves to snack or even eat her meal as I read and Sarah will not eat her breakfast in the mornings until I start reading. So, this was small and simple, but a hit with the kids. It was a last minute thing as I had gotten kind of busy and was running late. 

We finished the book The Lion in the Box and we will choose a new chapter book tomorrow. Our book from our bag for the day was The First Gift of Christmas by William Guiffre. It was actually a new book I had bought this year and we enjoyed it. 

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The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 12

Today our special thing today was to bring Christmas books downstairs. We brought two boxes of books down. The kids always like to go through the books they have not seen in a year – they are like old friends. We have started bringing down the books on two separate days as we have so many it makes it easier to go through them and enjoy the time without so many books you get overwhelmed. After I brought them down the kids spent a quiet, happy hour just looking at them and doing a little reading. It was a pleasant time together. 

Our book from our bag today was Once Upon a Christmas Eve by Kathy-Jo Wargin and the new chapter book we are reading is The Lion in the Box by Marguerite DeAngeli.  We enjoyed both books. It will only take a few days to finish our chapter book and then choose another one. It seems we will not get through as many as I wanted to before Christmas. 

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I also thought I would throw in a few pictures of the kids on the swing today as they were out there almost all day long. They were asking to go out as soon as they got up. Who knew a swing could be so exciting. 

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