Monday, December 23, 2019

More Christmas Preparations, More Concerts, Matilda, & a Bar Mitzvah!













This past week has been a wild one, but was full of fun things!  It started with our annual Christmas party complete with lots of help and lots of guests. BTW our washing machine has been broken for the last 3 weeks, but luckily the local laundromats have been a fantastic asset for us!  Our Christmas party was immediately followed by the kid's Christmas party at church on Sunday with ornaments and more cookies.

We did get some school done this week including a STEM igloo challenge with marshmallows and toothpicks.  Noah had his chorus concert and James had his orchestra concert this week. They both did so well!  This week also brought the end of basketball season for Ben and Audrey who both had so much fun playing and learning! I helped to coach, so there are zero pictures of them actually playing.

Thursday the kids and I traveled to Bangor to see the musical Matilda for their school time performance and it did not disappoint. Also on this magical day, our new washer and dryer were delivered.  The poor men who installed them faced some obstacles, but we are SO grateful to be able to do laundry in our house again (especially after surviving a GI bug this week!).

On Friday we loaded up and headed to the upper valley in Vermont to attend our first ever Bar Mitzvah celebration.  The kids all did SO incredibly well during a 2.5 hour ceremony and they learned so much! We did also enjoy the party in the evening, especially the dancing part;)  

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