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CHRISTMAS ADAM The kids are looking forward to and enjoying this Christmas-y tradition more and more each year!  (Recap: On Dec 23rd we let them open one present in the morning, we eat a cheese and fondue dinner, and then we camp under the Christmas tree and watch a Christmas movie at night.)  This year […]

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5 Christmas performances in 5 days.  We were lucky nothing overlapped! First up, Saturday December 10th, Jax had his first piano recital.  He loves to perform!  It was cute and simple, but I think he really enjoyed it all.  He played two songs, ‘O Christmas Tree’ and ‘Jingle Bells.’  His piano teacher, Caroline Hausman, provided […]

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Christmas this year was HOT! Hottest on record, I believe? The high was 86, which, incidentally, was the same high as July 25th, 2015. Christmas Eve afternoon, while I was cleaning and Ben doing yardwork, the kids were outside playing in the sprinklers. My mom wasn’t feeling up to hosting Christmas Eve because she was […]

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Christmas Adam is a colloquialism for the day before Christmas Eve or December 23rd. It is a rather new term. An online slang dictionary created a listing for it only nine years ago. Christmas Adam last year was a big hit so we continued the tradition this year.  A present, fondue dinner, Christmas movie, and sleeping […]

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I had planned and prepared for a really quiet December this year.  My Christmas shopping was pretty much done by December 1st.  We put our Christmas tree up early and skipped some of the extra decorating with the Christmas village and elaborate outdoor lighting.  I just wanted to keep things simple and slow and meaningful. […]

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