Luckily the teenagers that were interested in Black Friday shopping slept in so that Natalie and I could take down the Thanksgiving decorations and begin setting up for Christmas. A little before 11am Danny came down the stairs all ready for basketball practice, saw what we were doing, and asked to stay home that one day instead. How could I say no to that when I knew some boys were missing the entire week due to travel? It looks a bit like there is too much stuff everywhere but like a meme I saw said, “Christmas decorations should look like joy threw up in your house.” Ha! Those Jellyfish lights sure do come in handy and look so beautiful with the snow and moon.
I just had to put this here. I love how these neighborhood girls have fun all over the place together.
Michelle and I got to go to our neighbor, J’s, college concert. It was fun to see who will show up to a free concert at a university. We wended up sitting behind this woman who had to be around 80 and she seemed so cool that we couldn't help but find ourselves eavesdropping.
I stayed to chaperone one of our students for the middle school Winter Social. I'm not allowed to take photos of the kids but I really did appreciate all of the hard work the volunteers put into this and it was a blast to see so many people having fun. I got a kick out of J dancing and the way he ate his snacks! I had originally said that I would stay since Michelle and her friends were planning on coming to our house after the social but Michelle wasn't feeling well and missed some school. She was able to be at school that Friday but just didn't have the energy to stay for the party and we had already canceled having her friends over because we knew we would be pushing it. So that Friday night found her watching movies with her parents and little sister instead. Was that one of the night we binged the tv show Dash & Lily?
Luckily Michelle could get plenty of rest that Saturday and attend the Winter Gala at the local high school. We wanted to check out the music department because Michelle had considered going to a different high school but we were so pleased with the program that evening Michelle has decided to join Kate and Danny next year and I am thrilled!
Hubby and I had to divide and conquer because Danny had his first official game of high school about 45 minutes away. So my dad and Hubby cheered on Danny while Michelle and I dressed up for music. Hubby did a great job texted me so I got to have updates during intermission. I felt so loved!
We decided to celebrate Hanukkah with latkes early this year and they were delicious as usual. Michelle was feeling up to helping Hubby prepare them. We thought we had made enough to have leftovers for dinner (since we were having them at lunch time) but they were so popular we ended up making dinner after all. Success! Our dishwasher had a hard time keeping up but it was totally worth it.
Kate has been doing a lot of babysitting recently and can't wait until it will be legal to drive him around places so they can have even more fun together. She was able to join Michelle and I at the movie theater to watch The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes along with her friend, A. I think I liked it best because I had already read the book and knew more details and appreciated them trying to make an adaptation true to the source material. A and Michelle really liked it too but Kate was not a fan!
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