I hope you are enjoying the Christmas season as we are! This past week has been bliss as we took off school for the whole week! I put the books in the closet last Friday determined to not look at them for a long time! (:
I saved my baking to do this week. I did my cookies today, and hope to do some candy tomorrow. Maybe that is procrastinating, but I knew better than to try to fit it in our school schedule. I did procrastinate though with my gift shopping for the kiddos and regretted it, and learned a lesson at the same time!
We are actually going to be here for Christmas this year. We are going to PA in January instead. The kiddos were disappointed, but are still excited for Sunday. The Sunday school classes are each doing a short program on Sunday. I will be doing Amber's class.
Last weekend found David in Tennessee at the main barn headquarters for a Christmas Banquet/Meeting. We were all going to go, but I was trying to get extra school done, and found it overwhelming to prepare for a trip too. So, he got a friend from work to go with him instead.
The kiddos had fun at a little Christmas party at the library.
I saved my baking to do this week. I did my cookies today, and hope to do some candy tomorrow. Maybe that is procrastinating, but I knew better than to try to fit it in our school schedule. I did procrastinate though with my gift shopping for the kiddos and regretted it, and learned a lesson at the same time!
We are actually going to be here for Christmas this year. We are going to PA in January instead. The kiddos were disappointed, but are still excited for Sunday. The Sunday school classes are each doing a short program on Sunday. I will be doing Amber's class.
Last weekend found David in Tennessee at the main barn headquarters for a Christmas Banquet/Meeting. We were all going to go, but I was trying to get extra school done, and found it overwhelming to prepare for a trip too. So, he got a friend from work to go with him instead.
The kiddos had fun at a little Christmas party at the library.
A rare moment when Rissa and Treyton do something together, happily anyway, during school.
Last Sunday night we took the kiddos to a gardens in town that had free walk-through lights. We were bussed there, so Rissa and Treyton had their first bus ride. Treyton was not impressed and Rissa thought we were goners cause the ''driver goes too fast''. (:
It was cold, (for us anyway), but we still had fun.
One thing I am celebrating this Christmas is fulfilling (almost) last years New Years resolution of losing weight. I have lost 50 pounds and hope to go at least 10 more. And yes, as you probably noticed, as a result, my hair is going through the falling out stage, which I hope it VERY soon gets over with.
Aiken is very big into horse stuff. This statue was in the gardens.
The girls unwrapped and Treyton tried to steal my Christmas candy for baking.
Personally, I would have been okay skipping the whole holiday baking thing. It is time consuming and fattening, but decorating cookies has been very much anticipated by the girls. So, I guess I will have to work extra hard practicing self-control and let them have fun!
Finally, getting to do a favorite Christmas activity! Yes, Rissa is being an emotional wreck, but she was missing nap-time, and she thought that it was ''too hard'' of a project, but she was to stubborn and independent to let anyone help her. /:
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hope you all have a relaxing christmas at home! way to go on losing 50 lbs!!! what an accomplishment!
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