Christmas

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. All my kids were here under one roof that was nice. I think every one loved their gifts.
V, J and myself got Kindles.
S got his usual monopoly game, actually two this year, one was Pirates of the Caribbean.
Little guys got rescue heroes and an art easel. They are thrilled with their rescue heroes.
Here is the annual Christmas Eve pic.
First the nice one

Then the silly one.

 Then the boys in their cute tool gear with daddy.

Merry Christmas everyone. I pray you have a blessed day and don't forget the reason we celebrate. Jesus the Christ.

Good Morning

This past week was such a busy week for us. Two of my children C and V were in the Nutcracker performance so it was a busy week at the theater. You know I love all the backstage chaos that goes on to pull of a performance then it's your turn to go out and watch and it's like you forget all that's going on backstage.
I am hoping now we can slow down and focus more on Advent and the story we reading. It's called Jotham's Journey and you can find it here. There are three in the series and we just rotate every year. I think this is our third or forth time through them.

Things are different this year. J moved out on his own and S is working a lot so it's usually just the little guys and V listening when I read them and of course Daddy unless he falls asleep. With Nutcracker all week I had to read three sections last night so it was a bit longer and he did snore a bit. Not because my reading is boring of course just because he works so hard and was tired. :D

Today I have to reclaim the house that got ignored last week and school which was limited to the basic necessities.