Through the week

Tuesday afternoon we dashed about getting passport photos made (I'll explain later!), dragging out Christmas garland, picking up coffee urns and taking them to get set up for our annual Mom's Christmas Tea that our homeschool group holds. Dashed back to get 8yo ready for acro class, bake brownies and change clothes, drive back up to our meeting location and gladly sat down to a wonderfully relaxing time of fellowship and food with other Moms. We were treated to visions of beautifully decorated tables, filled our tummies with scrumptious goodies of all sorts (I especially enjoyed Beth's tea sandwiches and the pumpkin cheesecake), listened to wonderful music by some children and joined in for some carols as a group, and then were treated to a dramatic presentation of Mary by Dianne Hart which touched everyone in the room. A great evening! After taking some info for the next field trip I'm planning, collecting some items to mail to soldiers and helping clean up, I talked a few minutes in the parking lot with friends, made a late evening run to Target to pick up toys and games that were on sale and came home to re-tuck the little ones into bed.

Yesterday we went to the public library for "Story Time" where we were treated to several good books, including one by Jan Brett (one of our favorite authors) called "The Gingerbread Baby". The children then made gingerbread men (girls) as fridge magnets. Later after some school was done we stood in line at the Post Office to finish off the passport applications (OK, now I'll tell you - D and I are going to MEXICO in January!! All expenses paid for both of us by one of his company's suppliers - what fun!!).

Last night was the semi-annual "Awanas Store" at church so I had to arrive a little early and help with that and it was lots of fun to see the bright faces chose "gifts" that they had earned by attending and learning verses since September. My 8yo is going to participate in the T&T Bible Quiz in January so she has been working especially hard to learn and relearn her verses. Today we are doing school, cleaning house, hanging out clothes and hoping to get outside to pick up more rocks and roots before the day is over. Tomorrow we have a Craft Fair in the afternoon for the children to make crafts for friends and relatives for Christmas - I'll try to post some pics of it after it's over if I get a chance to take any in between helping made pot holders. Have a great week (what's left of it!) -