Saturday, December 30, 2023
Hadestown with Norah
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Christmas Memories of 2024
Norah and Dwayne both work at Preferred, so we all attended the company Christmas party together this year.
Adele is painting various winter-themed watercolors in her free time this Christmas break.
Avril is crocheting various projects including this angel for me.
We have a strict, rigorous routine during the weeks of homeschool that there are only a few hours in the day or read and create freely. So the girls respond to days and days of vacation with abundant creativity!
Adele got a parlor guitar. Avril (and Adele) got a keyboard to practice on, since they are both helping on the worship bands at church.
Sunday, December 24, 2023
"Santa Found Guilty!" the headlines read the day after his trial. Now Santa has to trade his famous red suit for an orange jumpsuit for a few years. Rudolph isn't so fortunate. He's going to prison for life. Public sympathies, easily swayed, are now with the two Christmas culprits. As long as Santa's interned at the North Pole Corrections Center, there will be no, no, no Merry Christmas for anyone.
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Friday, December 22, 2023
Christmas celebrations continued uninterrupted even though Santa was in the slammer. As usual, parents bought all the presents, but for once, they got all the credit and thanks. People made and shared feasts as always. It was almost as if Christmas was never about Santa, and his presence had never been required to make Christmases merry and bright.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
As Santa sat through another day of testimonies for the prosecution, his stomach growled, and quite naturally, he began to think of all those cookies and milk that would go uneaten this year, seeing that he was likely to be forced into retirement by a long prison sentence.
"Come to think on it, it's not so bad. Perhaps I'll finally get to settle down for a long winter's nap," he thought. "At the very least, I won't have to deal with that beastly chiwawa at 19 Lego Lane. They call him 'Ginger.' I say, 'Ginger snap,' since the little demon always bites my shins just above my boots. I'd have kicked her across their living room if I weren't such a saint..."
On these and other such ruminations, Santa resigned himself to drink whatever cup of wrath the fickle, ungrateful public set out for him. He was seen to close his eyes right there in court, no longer taking any apparent interest in the tears and bitter eyes of the witnesses. To his lawyer's dismay, Santa was seen to actually chuckle softly to himself, cross his hands over his large belly, lay his head back and fall asleep.
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Santa sat in the courtroom for hours, staring at the clock, hearing countless testimony against his character set to the rhythm of the second hand. Witnesses maligned his saintly reputation claiming he only gives the best gifts to kids of the wealthy and fails to adequately compensate charities that, for years, have just been trying to make up for all that Santa wouldn't do for the poor...
Friday, December 15, 2023
It was Gabriel Gamer's grandma who got run over by the reindeer. His family has been all over the news and their testimonies are also proving useful for the Prosecution even with the jury sequestered because of such a high profile case.
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Be Serious Then Watch the Fun Begin
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