Going through the motions...

I love Christmas. I love the Christmas season...the true meaning...the music...the decorating...the cookies...you name it. This year though I can't seem to get in the mood. Thanksgiving came and went without much emotion. I feel like I'm in a fog lately. With the unknowns regarding our home and where we'll end up living it's difficult to be comfortable and relax. Some days we all think that our home will sell just after the holidays, and some days we think it won't sell at all. It's a very uneasy feeling. We don't know how much to decorate since we need to keep our home in tip-top 'clutter-free' shape. I truly want to end this chapter of our lives and move on. We have been through so many life changes - it's getting old. I like change, but not the kind we've had lately. Calgon...take me away!!!

I've also been sick with a bad sinus infection the past week or so, which got me down too, but I'm feeling much better which is good. I've tried to have a good week - to keep things 'normal' for the kids. I think I'm feeling better about things, but that fog lurks nearby...I just need to keep it from consuming my thoughts!

School is going fairly well....we're by no means caught up, but that will come at the end of the school year when we continue school during the summer months. (Sorry kids!) Lionel is having a blast with his labs. He's been hard at work drawing various types of cells while looking at them through the microscope. He LOVES the microscope! We have a mini 'lab' set up in my Dad's old kitchen, so it works out perfectly there. Every once in a while I will hear Lionel say "Wow!" or "Awesome, check this out!" when finding another microscopic living creature. He's a riot! Here he is working on this week's assignment:



Here are a few of his drawings: (no need to comment on the horrible handwriting...I've already given him the 3rd degree on it!)


On the flip side...Sweet-Pea is having a better time in the kitchen than in the school room these days. She's such the little baker! She picked out the Christmas cookies she wants to help bake and she's already working hard. One down...several more to go!!!


Her skating is also going well. She's learning to spin now among other fun things. She is still very much a beginner, but once she's confident on the ice more, she'll try more difficult moves. We are proud of her accomplishments already.


Cody is doing well too. He's been doing new more adventurous things lately....snuggling up to us more often, jumping up on the couch to watch TV and being overall more social with the whole family - not just me. The longer we have him, the more he improves! Edward was sitting down next to me earlier and Cody came right up behind him and squeezed his way into his arms....too cute!!!


Hopefully by early next week we will all be well enough to go cut down our Christmas tree. Maybe that will get me in the mood a bit more! Tomorrow we're going to weed through all our decorations. We're going to throw out all the 'stuff' we no longer use now so we don't bring them to our new home. It will be nice having a new home with no junk in it - one day!

I'm off to work on Christmas cards now....have a blessed weekend!