Christmas is Coming Up

Wow oh wow. All the happenings coming up. Wednesday is Lilian's third birthday AND Decorate Your Potato Head Day. In case you are not aware from previous years, Josh years ago was asked to make up a new holiday. This was his holiday. It is the day before Thanksgiving. We all get a potato to decorate into whatever we want. Such heads have included: fish, Owls, old faces of men, and much much more. We will celebrate Lilian's birthday this weekend so we don't have a birthday AND holiday all on the same day. Next year she will turn 4 on Thanksgiving.

A few days ago I sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to Lil. She has loved the song ever since and asks me to sing it over and over again. She is getting in the spirit of Christmas. She has been asking me to put up the tree for weeks. She can't stand it that Christmas isn't here yet. Totally she gets that this man in the red suit will bring her lots of presents soon. She is soo excited. So we decorated a bit early. Just the dining room. But we put up the stockings and our small tree. What a blast. And we listened to Christmas music while we worked.

Then there was the pool for a few hours this evening. The local pool opens to the town public for free swim. They are all asleep now. Whooo!

Oh so here is new news. Gaige told us the other day that he can't wait to go to school. So we (Bret and I) were like then why are you still going to the co-op? Go to school if that's what you want. Well, turns out that IS what he wants. He likes the co-op. And it is sooo not about school and learning anything. He wants to be at the school his friends go to. He wants to hang out with them in school and come home to hang out at home. He does have plenty of homeschool friends. But the kids he hangs out with most of all are at the school across the street from our house. That is where he wants to be, so he can hang out with his friends. Is it going to be that easy? Maybe... maybe not. Do I REALLY believe in letting my kids find their own way? Off he goes to find his own way. I told him that everything can be undone at any time. If he doesn't like it and wants to try other options or go back to the co-op, homeschooling, online public school, whatever, he can change at ANY TIME. His choice, his decision, his life. I will be ok with his decisions, no matter what. More details as they arise...