The other night at dinner I was reviewing the list of words and phrases we don’t use in our house. Our kids are home a lot and there are certain things I just don’t want them to get in the habit of saying. Here they are in no particular order:
We took our Christmas tree down a couple of days ago and I laid it outside beside the house. The kids were out playing today and decided to put it up again, complete with lights.
The weather has been nice and we got out for a hike in the woods behind our house yesterday, just before the rain started. It was fun to be able to get out and explore the woods with none of the ground plants and not being freezing.
Today Susan and the kids made some gingerbread houses.
We wasted no time getting our Christmas trees up this year. On our way back from Kansas City we stopped at Costco to pick up our tree and we had it in and set up later that night.
New this year we have a second Christmas tree in our house. We put the live tree in the back family room. This is our more traditional tree. We also have an artificial tree in the front room, to help decorate the inside and outside.
This weekend we got out for two hikes, to enjoy the nice weather. On Friday evening we went for our monthly hike with the Prairie Grass Guild. On Sunday we went with the Reagens to Brown’s Woods.
Today was the kids’ official first day of school. They did have their WDM enrichment classes yesterday.
We like our kids to choose an instrument in 3rd grade and Elliot has chosen to play the piano! He has his second lesson this afternoon, with Piano Jen, whose has been Andrew’s instructor