December is such a whirlwind. It is a month where I want to cherish Every. Single. Thing. but it is also really hard to stay present and not get frazzled and stressed.
We worked through our advent calendar on most days. I tried to arrange it where there were simpler things to do during the week and more complex things on the weekends. Sometimes this worked, and sometimes it didn't. If we missed a day then I tried to not worry about it. Some of our activities included:
- Make a Christmas chain
- Make Christmas ornaments
- Make a Christmas craft
- Decorate the windows with "snow"
- Go see Christmas lights
- Building a fort and watch a Christmas movie
- Color a Christmas picture
- Go to Bass Pro to see Santa
- Go to "Make it Take it" family night at school
- Watch the Fair Grove Christmas "Parade"
- Decorate cookies
- Spend the night at Grandma and Papas
Because we always travel to Michigan for the actual Christmas holiday, we celebrate with my family on a Saturday morning before we go. It is complete craziness with all of the kids but so so fun! We let everyone just open their presents at once and it is impossible to keep track of everything.
Somehow we don't have any pictures of Kathryn or Amelia so my guess is that they were off running around together. They have become pretty good friends :).
The week that we left for Michigan was completely crazy. I had a board meeting, we had my work Christmas party, and we had to pack. We decided to order pizza and do our immediate family's celebration on a Tuesday night. I was so so sick but it is still always fun to watch your kids open presents (and let's be honest, I love it too)!
The following Saturday morning we loaded up into our Escape with two adults, two kids, a dog, and tons of presents and headed up North......
Part II coming soon.
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