Our December started out in Florida and ended in Texas. The next week was a packed week of work and one of my friends deciding to have a garage sale. We got our stuff ready to be sold during the week and ended our week with “breaking even” with our garage sale.
A little over 2 days later in the mist of sick kids and trying to figure out the responsibilities of two working parents, our friends that we just had the garage sale with house burnt down to the ground. Talk about something so humbling for us, as parents to have to talk about with our children. Here we have all this stuff and what really matters is that we have our lives and our families. I still don’t know if the kids get it or will ever get what their friend is going through, I just hope that they have empathy for her and what she is going through. Three days later we were rocked by what happened at Sandy Hook. I was working at my little school and one of my responsibilities for the day was letting families of kinder, 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders in the school to see their children’s Christmas program. Talk about a difference that a couple of hours make, the morning program was full of joy and excitement and the afternoon program included silence and a Sheriff Department Deputy overseeing the entrance into the school. The next day we were rocked just a little more when my car was ransacked while we were at home. I went to go to the grocery store, after the kids were asleep, to find out that my car had been went through and stuff was thrown everywhere and some things were taken. Here are some pictures from our December.
Hadlee after she received her certificate for September Student of the Month at the December PTO meeting.
The girls were so proud of their Christmas tree that they decorated in their room.
Hays opening up his gift at their school Christmas party.
Harper at her school Christmas party. (it was a little tough this year trying to split my time between both classes)
Hadlee ready to go out and do a little Christmas shopping.
Poor Harper had a terrible rash and a high fever during our first round of sickness. She also got an ear infection and missed almost an entire week of school.
I didn't take many pictures in December, they will love this one!
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