The beginning of the month had its usual piano recital, Christmas party at church for the sisters, Sister #1 had a few school choir performances ( I won't bore you with the details, but it was a little much... especially for a 4th grader), and then the school "holiday" parties. Oh, and the neighborhood Christmas play. That's right. The neighborhood play. I'll save that one for another post.
Then there was The Holiday. We choose to skip the (extended)family dramatics and go skiing. So much simpler. Since we were leaving town on the day the sisters got out of school, we decided to celebrate Christmas early. And we let the cat out of the bag. That's right. We are the mean, harsh parents that popped their children's fantasy of a big jolly man coming down the chimney (we don't have one... our fireplace just has this weird metal box that vents in the backyard) and leaving presents for good girls. They took it pretty well. Just a couple of questions about logistics, and they were fine with it all. We did tell them not to spoil it for other kids, which I think they get. They've had a few kids at school try to spoil it for them, and I reminded them they didn't want to be lumped into the same category as them.
Anywho... here's a few pics of our holiday:
And then here are a few pics of our ski trip:
I'll go into detail on the ski trip another day...
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