My darling husband gave me this book about one of my favorite, yet admittedly awful movies, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, for Christmas. So I've poured through it for the past day and now we are watching the film. Delicious.
I'm going to go through a bunch of updates. Forgive me for the lack of my customary bon mots.
This is the line outside our elementary school, to get into the Holiday show. Oscar's class was performing two songs in the show and he gave me very specific instructions on where to sit. I lucked out and ended up right in front of him:
The 31 (!) kids in his class did a lovely choreographed dance to the Carol of the Bells and then sang a song. Oscar was an absolute star.
I got a package from my favorite Mormon blogging family. I can't do a straight link, since they all have different blogs, but here's my favorites:
http://kurtknudsen.blogspot.com/
http://my-angle.blogspot.com/
http://www.thedillspiel.blogspot.com/
They seem like awfully wonderful folks, and I am in awe of their creativity and togetherness. The mom and dad have a great Etsy shop and I bought my darling mother-in-law a collection of stars for Christmas. I also bought a star for our tree to replace the feathered mask that has topped our tree since our honeymoon. Honestly, the packaging was worth the money alone (remember that my husband's name is Charles Evan, but he goes by Evan):
Lucy helped me put on the stamps for our cards. We probably got through half of our cards BEFORE Christmas. The rest will need to be New Year's Cards.
Haircuts! We know we need haircuts when Arlo starts hacking off his hair with his toddler scissors. Luckily we have a great barbershop.
After haircuts, we need to eat hearty red-sauce and gelato at Pinocchio's.
Our old friend Nybakken came to visit, and I swept a few of the kiddos off to the local church's Journey to Bethlehem. It was a living theater of a 2000-year-old marketplace. You entered, added your name to the census, and were given a handful of shekels to spend.
Oscar patting bunnies and buying spices.
Oscar watching his friend B blow the shofar.
Oscar was horrified when the roman guard demanded the taxes from the blacksmith.
As I've said before, we are a generally agnostic family, but we still celebrate the birth of Jesus since he was a good teacher and a great man.
Disneyland and Christmas update tomorrow. Good night, all.
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