December Daily – Days 9, 10 & 11

Day 9: Christmas Cookies – Every year, I exchange cookies with several girlfriends.  This year, I made gingerbread cookies, and apricot, raspberry & hazelnut thumbprints.

Day 10:  The Perfect Tree journaling reads: I love our beautiful tree this year.  Again, we went to Mayne’s Tree Farm and picked out this beauty.  It is one of our newer traditions, but we all love doing it!

Day 11 journaling reads:  Experiencing Peter Pan with Dylan & Ella was so much fun.  I was a bit apprehensive because it started at 7:15 (D & E’s bedtime), and ran for 3 hours with two intermissions.  It surpassed all of my expectations of what a high school production could possibly be.  The acting was well done; the singing was on key and Ellen projected her voice throughout the auditorium; and all of the amazing effects kept each of our attentions.  When Wendy, John, and Michael began to fly through the magic of wires, pulleys and harnesses, Ella whooped ang laughed whole heartedly. Dylan was also enraptured by everything that was happening on the stage.  He stood gripping the seat in front of him and whispered questions and comments to me throughout the play, “Mommy, where is Ellen’s hair?  Did she cut it off?” or “Mommy, look at the fireplace!” or “Watch Tinkerbell!”  Our neighbors in the seats ahead of us commented on how well behaved Dylan and Ella were — and loved all of Dylan’s commentary throughout the program.