Our Growing Family: 2019

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Although we officially live in Decatur now, we returned to Southaven Monday for the CC Christmas party. We stopped by our house to pick up a few things, changed clothes, and took a last last picture by the front door.

On CC days in the afternoons while the older kids are in Essentials (a language arts program), the younger girls take ballet and the boys take taekwondo. Both groups exhibited before the Christmas party.

One of the sweetest moments of the night was at the beginning on the older girls' dance. One of the girls was sick and not there. That caused another girl to get confused where her spot was and she missed the beginning cue. She's very shy and easily embarrassed and she ran off the stage crying. The teacher stopped the music and some of the girls including Mollie Grace ran to her, hugged and encouraged her and she returned to the stage and completed the dance.

Mollie Grace is in the back and hard to see in this picture.

Each tutor had a group and they set up a table with an activity based on a Christmas song. The classes went from table to table. My group chose "Let It Snow." We had a "snowball" fight and hot chocolate.

Ben pouring all the snowballs on me.

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" cake walk.

"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" games

Blue Christmas

Veronica as Frosty the Snowman

Clean up with friends. And because it was supposed to snow Tuesday we drove home afterwards and got home about 11 p.m.

Movers

The movers were supposed to arrive Tuesday, Dec. 3, but they were running a day behind. John and I thought we would be a day later than planned arriving in Decatur. We were wrong! They were so fast they were practically magical. The truck, driver, and four additional packers arrived about 10 a.m. Wednesday. Our entire house was packed and ready to load by 3 p.m. They returned the next day and loaded just as quickly.

I filled the kids' bathroom with all the things we needed to survive a few days while our things were packed.

Annie is blocking the glare so that she can watch something on her Kindle. The internet wasn't disconnected until 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

Thanksgiving night we got an offer on our house. It took several days to get the contract signed by our relocation company because of the holiday, but Wednesday our realtor posted the SOLD sign in our yard.