We had a nice break, with a four-day trip to Los Angeles to see family and friends, Hanukkah celebrations in Los Angeles and back at home, and our first Christmas dinner ever thanks to an invitation from old friends who recently moved to our neck of the woods. We rented lots of movies and saw "The Adventures of Tintin" in the theater, read, played games, made art, had playdates, baked, cooked, and took on a lot of major cleaning and purging projects.
We celebrated the last day of vacation by having lunch out at Sadie's favorite Chinese restaurant, recorded for posterity in this iPhone egg drop soup photo:
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| Note: Sadie's lunch did not come with soup; she stole mine. |
The kids also spent hours today with their Ed Emberley book drawing pirates and penguins and pandas. Clearly, they were stuck on "P"s! I used to draw from Ed Emberley books when I was a kid and it's neat to see the next generation doing the same thing.
The evening was all about the Iowa caucuses. Seth follows major election events closely for his research and teaching, and can, like tonight, usually be found following such events sitting on the couch with the TV on, his laptop on his lap, and his iPhone in his hand. It's so funny how the kids get sucked in as well. When I tucked Eli into bed he wanted me to come back upstairs in ten minutes to let him know what percentage of the votes were in yet and who was ahead.
I think today is going to be a little hard for all of us as we return to reality, but I'm sure that we'll have settled back into the routine within a day or two.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's first Thrifty Thursday, when I will dig back into my stash of products and start using up some of the stuff I can't bear to part with.
1 comment:
I love the new schedule! I'm in the midst of my annual New Year's purge as well and will then get to my list of "neglected things" - scrapbooking being near the top. Your enthusiasm is rubbing off on me and I can't wait to start creating again. :)
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