It’s officially the busiest time of the year. Just for the record I’m about 75% finished Christmas shopping. I have neglected you all for over a month, so let me start by first apologizing and then catching you up with bulleted points. I’m basically going to break things down like a fraction.
• Alex’s birthday- Mom cooked his special birthday dinner: meatloaf, spinach salad, pecan pie. I gave him tickets to Star Wars in concert! We went on Nov. 1st and it was awesome!
• At work October begins the excitement and it snowballs until after New Years. I feel I should use bullet points to remain organized, perhaps dashes to break up the monotony. Here’s what we learned about!
OCT.
- There was an Old Monster… It’s a new take on The Old Lady who Swallowed the Fly. We talk about monsters being make believe, green is a halloween color and we make monster puppets. Also, Go Away Big Green Monster is a class favorite.
-Bat, Cats and Spiders. We talk about the color black, it’s a Halloween color and that bats, cats and spiders are symbols of Halloween. We made cute spider webs by marble painting white on black paper, make cat hats and bat clothes pins.
-Big Pumpkin! This is one of my favorite books, if you can find it with the audio CD, BUY ONE FOR ME, because it is the cutest Halloween book. We carve a jack-o-lantern, which I’m really good at doing. Smash a pumpkin and perform a “pumpkin autopsy.” We make pumpkin lanterns, pumpkin overlays and pumpkin pie!
-Halloween Imagination ends October and we have a parade on Friday. The kids dressed up, a lot of Little Mermaids and Transformers this year, and the parents come watch. I was Miss. Mary Mack, Mack, Mack with silver buttons, buttons, buttons all down my back, back, back. This week usually begins the insanity.
•Halloween weekend was a busy weekend for Alejohndro and I. We went to a hockey game, visited with some of the cutest trick-or-treaters, attended Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Polk Theater (wow.), visited his parents in St. Pete and went to Star Wars in Concert! Busiest weekend of my life. There was more planned but I was overwhelmed and didn’t do some stuff.
•Which now brings us into Nov. It’s sad to say, but Thanksgiving gets overlooked due to the preparation of Christmas at work. We do a couple of cute fun art projects with the kiddos and read some cute Thanksgiving books.
•Thanksgiving was delicious this year. I was very thankful. Alex was able to come eat lunch with my family and then we drove to St. Pete to see his family. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays & it’s over. Life goes by so quickly! I look forward to the year when I can host my own Thanksgiving.
•Now it’s almost Christmas and it’s going to happen even faster.
•There are a lot of cute projects we’re doing in the Purple Door. The Christmas program is in 2 weeks. The stress, anxiety and planning that goes into this event is insurmountable. More on that event later.
I hope you had a Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and a Good Morning!
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