Christmas is coming!

We are starting to feel the bustle of the Christmas season, as you can probably tell from the quantity of blog posts lately.

The girls' excitement is growing daily, and we are trying hard to balance the meaning of the season with the glamour of commercialism.

We have been reading quite a few bookies and stories based on the Christmas season including;

1. The Animals' Merry Christmas - Richard Scarry


2. Mouse and Mole and the Christmas Walk - Doug Cushman


3. Night Tree - Eve Bunting


4. Franklin and the Christmas Gift -Paulette Bourgeois


5. Dora's Starry Christmas - Christine Ricci

We have been working on quite a few crafts, both for the girls' Christmas tree which they have set up in the basement, and for the Christmas market (an evening put on by our local homeschooling group) we attended last week.

The Christmas market involved kids from approx. 12 homeschooling families with tables set up in a local recreation center selling their homemade wares. The girls made button star ornaments, wrapping paper, Christmas card ball ornaments, Christmas cards, and Christmas tree cork stands and offered everything on their table for sale at 50 cents each. The client base included other homeschooling families and the onlookers of a nearby hockey game. After an exciting profit of about 12 dollars (thanks again Grammie and our other awesome supporters), the girls got involved in bartering and shopping and came home with handfuls of treasures and tasty treats (and one lone twoonie!).
The girls deemed the evening a great success and are looking forward to their next attempt at entrepreneurialism.
I am definitely visualizing a lemonade stand parked on our front lawn next summer!

We also took in a play put on by a local theatre group aimed specificlly at school age kids. The play was titled "Holiday dream" and for the short version involved a boy who wished everyday could be a holiday instead of a school day. Even though the girls obviously didn't have a great attachment to the idea of "no school" they seemed to enjoy the theatre atmosphere and the experience of being part of a larger whole in responding to the actors.

Well, these are just a few of our latest escapades, and we have many more events planned as we gear up to the big day... gingerbread houses at grammies, our early learners Christmas party, gift exchanges with friends, Christmas baking with Aunt Pam... the list goes on...

We will keep you posted :)