Week 39 at Home: Elf Adventures

Our little elf, George, has continued to surprise and delight this week! I love the fact that he's been in our family since 2011. My hope is that he continues to join us at the holidays for several more years. It's been fun this year to see what activities he's been up to.

12/6: Ready to make some music

12/7: Distance learning with the kiddos

12/8: George left the kids some candy canes as a sweet treat

12/9: Caroling with Puppy and Wolfie

12/10: We read the Gingerbread Boy in his honor!

12/11: Storytime with George! We read "The Gingerbread Girl" this night...she's much smarter and wiser than her older brother, the Gingerbread Boy

12/12: Ready to bake....but we already made all of our Christmas treats, so instead, we'll be decorating the sugar cookies my mom made

In non-George news, we had a great week! G and I visited with his teacher for a few minutes on Wednesday. We wanted to drop off her gift, and also pick up some new books for G to read. It was so nice to see her in person...even if it was just for a short while. I also finished wrapping all of the Christmas gifts, and taught Ava how to do it so she can become a helper next year. Scott offered to wrap my gifts (yes, the ones I bought for myself) but that seemed like a perfect opportunity to engage Ava in the Christmas spirit...so she wrapped most of those. :)

We've been watching a LOT of Christmas movies lately, and the kids thought it was so funny to match the scene from this one. Maybe it was a "Princess for Christmas"? Honestly, that night we also watched "Christmas with a Prince" and "Christmas with a View"...and I debated watching "A Christmas Prince" too...I mean...if we're going to watch movies with some crossover actors, and also titles that are easily confused, we might as well go all in!

Ava braided her hair the other day and she looked so cute!

Hygge has been on my mind lately, and this is one scene that represents it for me...cozy and bright!

Scott is finishing up some trim work in the basement, and then it'll be mostly done (minus the bathroom...and the furniture. We ordered it in May and were just notified that it won't ship until Feb 2021. I've just about lost my patience with it.) It's really pulled together nicely and Scott has done a great job!

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