Holiday Week

The boys took a holiday week. Me, not so much.
I have never had a more un-relaxing holiday week in my life. Well, it had it’s moments, but basically, I want to take a lesson for next year.

In a very stressful moment, my son was trying to snap pictures and get me to smile.

Christmas Morning

Sleepy boys- My boys did better than the rest of the family that missed out on the memo that Christmas means waking up early.

Opening gifts…

Audio books and stories are always a hit!

F. opening his gift

J. opening his gift

M. getting the food ready

One of many platters

Mid-afternoon meal

Children all lined up

Excited faces

The rest of the children

Taking turns

H. opening his gift

P. and his gifts

My gift

L.’s gift

P. new tool’s

Little W. telling us a story

We spent the night, having one giant sleep over, which is more fun when you are younger. The young ones had a blast!

They all woke up bright and early and I fed them cereal and we decided to watch White Christmas as we ran out of time in the evening!

I then took my younger two and my nephew on a hike in the snow, and sledding. They were perfect for the rest of the day, played a game of Life, which by the way….was very stressful for me. I do not understand why it is 100,000 in debt to go to college, no scholarships for good grades offered, everything is sue happy, and money grubbing. I think we will use the money with our old board!

They also played with legos and ate candy, popcorn, and cookies. It was a very healthy day. Hey! They were happy!

The next day, we decided to go sledding with a big group of us, they were so excited, they all got ready way too far ahead of time.

We remedied it with sandwiches!

My cousin’s son…

Yum, cookies!

My aunt’s son

We enjoyed sledding, and I went up and down, up and down the hills on purpose for a good workout.

We started some light schoolwork, which I needed some more days off, but we did history, reading, geography, etc. I should have added in some math drills, but I was exhausted.

Friday- again after a light school day, the older boys went to work at my sisters, and I took T. for a hike in the snow- deeper snow now, and sledding. It was a bit difficult to walk in, but walked/hiked for over an hour.

I am trying to gear up for a new school week and hoping to make it work for the rest of the school year!

Week #18, here we come!