Every year on January 1st, all the decorations come down and tree is gone except for about a bazillion needles carpeting my floor and the trail to the door. We like having a fresh start (and a clean house) for the new year. But, still, I usually feel a bit of a let down. No more 24-hour Christmas music on the radio. No more Christmas cards in the mail with pictures of friends and their children to admire. No more gingerbread-house-making parties or tea parties with Drew pretending he is Santa at the North Pole. No more reading the Advent book at night with our kids or opening Advent gifts every morning. Sorta sad to know we have to wait another 11 months until we can start all of that again.
Sunday Snapshots {Do issues}
Yes, she’s super darn cute with her candy cane shaped pretzel (only in Phili!).
But, the hair.
Total. Mullet.
So, what’s a Mama to do?
Cut or not cut?
The only redeeming part of the mullet is pigtails. And, I don’t want to lose those. But, even Mark doesn’t like her hair down.
And that’s saying something.
Particularly since he does have some familiarity with mullets.
I’m just saying.
Sunday Snapshot {Extending the holiday}
I am fully aware that it is November 14th and that Thanksgiving is around the corner and Christmas shopping is apparently well under way.
Look what we did this past week. Yup, while the rest of you are buying your Gingerbread house kits (please tell me that you buy the kit in the box and don’t make it from scratch), we made a gingerbread haunted house. (For the record–it was a gift. I didn’t buy it on clearance after Halloween. Though, I totally would have if I had seen it!)
Lydia tried to get in on the action. She’s so cute.
You see, Halloween is a pretty big deal around here. I know that’s sorta strange. We are a Christian family, and I know that many Christian families don’t even “do” Halloween. But, not only do our kids “do” it, they love it. I think the main reason that I haven’t discouraged it at all and have engaged in conversations in April about what they are going to be for Halloween is because of this:
Snapshot o’ Trick o’ Treatin’
Because after they did this…
(which Lydia quickly got the hang of and loved…but only if they had lollipops)
We ended up doing this…
sorting candy…and lots of it. Seriously. Lots. Of. Candy.
Here was Drew’s attempt at sorting. Yes, that’s one box of candy in a bag. Guess it didn’t fit in with the other categories.
A personal note of thanks to the neighbors who gave out pretzels. Perhaps the kids don’t like you as much, but we moms thank you. And, to the random person who somewhere gave my kids mints from Olive Garden, fooey on you.
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