We all wish it was…

Me: do you have your mask?

E: I don’t know. 

Me: did you bring it to the car?

E: I think so. Unless this is all a dream. 

Sister Crafternoon

Lisa hosted a crafternoon and it was super fun! 

Beth made most of this rag garland, then I finished it up. It looks super cute in my playroom. 

This took a lot longer than I anticipated but it turned out cute. 

Our day at home was packed so the Our Lady of Guadalupe fruit pizza tradition barely made it into the day this year. I got the cookie made and frosted, and the fruit cut, so it seemed appropriate to assemble it at crafternoon. Her face always frustrates me so I went with abstract this year. 

Grinch Movie Afternoon

One of our favorite things to do as a family during advent is watch Christmas movies. The Grinch is a favorite so we make an afternoon of it. 

Lewis made Grinch wreath cookies. 





Elias helped me make Grinch slime, but it was a Pinterest fail. 

And Augustine made us Grinch cookies. 





St. Nick brought them all a Grinch tray for their goodies.

Levi wasn’t too sure about his first Grinch screening. 

Cathedral Christmas Program

Kindergarten through 5th grade

Fifth grade sang Hark the Herald Angels Sing. 

Third grade sang We Three Kings. 

Twin Elves

St. Nick Feast Day

Who is spread out Saint Nicholas’ feast day over two days this year. Since it fell on a school day we needed some extra time over the weekend to play with the surprises!

Elias really wanted A Christmasy blanket that was extremely soft. He also got a waffle maker that makes gingerbread man waffles.

Lewis wanted a triceratops dig it up. I didn’t get a picture, but Augustine wanted concrete smoothers, which he hopes to use in the snow until next spring when it’s mud pit season again. 



Anything that looks like a small person is a “baby“ to Levi and he cuddles it and carries it around for hours.

The next day was Saint Nick‘s feast day so we filled the shoes with chocolate coins. 

There were also treats in their stockings. 

There was just enough time before school to sort their candy. 

Each boy got a tray with the grinch on it for our traditional grinch movie afternoon.

Levi had never had chocolate coins before due to a dairy intolerance, but this year he got to try his first one! He also enjoyed the truck he wouldn’t let me wrap up in some new baby bottles for his babies.

Road Trip

Deb and I took a quick trip to South Dakota to attend our friend’s mom’s funeral. Although we did not know her directly, it was a beautiful celebration of her life and she has an awesome daughter, Lisa, who we call friend. 

Lisa and Deb have been friends to me for almost 20 years…that’s almost half my life! It was so good to see them, especially Lisa’s boys. I’ve known her oldest for almost all of his life (and got to meet his finance!) and the other two boys I’ve known since they were born. They are still such nice boys and I loved catching up with them. 

Deb and I can’t remember the last time we had this much uninterrupted time together, or when we did so much relaxing all at once.