This month was all about Christmas. We put all schoolwork on hold and spent our time reading Christmas storybooks, watching Christmas movies, playing games, doing crafts, baking, cooking, card-making, painting, and having playdates. My hope was to be as laid-back as possible and spend time enjoying my kids. I tried to get us all outside as much as possible for morning walks, but it was a pretty wet month and we were indoors way too much!
For the first time, we decided to start a celebrating Hanukkah. Armed with a new menorah, we got several books about it out of the library, watched YouTube videos, and talked to a Jewish friend about the history of the holiday and how to celebrate. I learned so much that I never knew before! The boys looked forward to lighting our menorah each night after dinner and listening to Mark read the blessings.
I got sick the week of Christmas. Luckily (or Providentially), Mark had already planned on taking the week of Christmas off, so he was around to help out. There were four days that I couldn't do anything except lay on the couch, so he got the kids out of the house as much as possible. On one day, they spent hours at Coyote Creek trail. They rode scooters, played in mud, and discovered a new creek.
Mark and the boys shot off rockets at our local high school's sports field. They had a ton of fun.
We had a family hike to the halfway point of El Toro. The boys wanted to go all the way to the top, but Mark and I had the girls on our backs, so we weren't able to.
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