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This past week was one the busiest weeks ever!

We're planning to have everyone over for Christmas this year because it just takes too much effort to lug Mia's stuff around to another house. That means we needed to make our house look festive and we've been doing a little bit here and there all week. Last weekend we bought our Christmas tree and Aidan and I spent about an hour decorating it. I stayed up late one night wrapping all the gifts we had while Lola sat inside a plastic bag keeping me company. I also put out a few decorations...just trying to keep it simple this year. The less I take out of storage, the less work I have to do to put them back. Allan's putting up our Christmas lights today too.

Aidan's school had kept us busy too. They had their Christmas show this past Wednesday and his class did the Nativity play. Aidan was one of the three narrators and I was so proud watching him on stage reading his lines. Then on Thursday I was one of the parent volunteers who drove the kids to their first field trip on what I thought was to watch "The Nutcracker". It was really just an overview where the cast explained the story and they tried to make it fun for the kids by doing some audience participation. They also showed us a few of the dances. Let me tell you, it was not something for the 5-year-old set because they were bored out of their minds. I had to scold some of the kids and they'd listen for 10 seconds and then forget. Ugh.