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Almost every year we go see The Nutcracker, and while the ballet this year was pretty good I think what I enjoyed the most was the kids sitting in front of us.
It was a brother and sister who were maybe 5 and 7 years old. Their family had a box to themselves off to the side so the kids weren't blocking anyone's view but their parents', but they kept standing up, twirling past each other to the music, and plopping into each other's seats before getting up to dance and trade places again practically the whole time. The boy was clapping so hard after the Russian dancers I thought he was going to lift off. Those parents definitely got their money's worth that night.
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We went to a farm stand and brought home a pretty tree, but the top branch was comically long. And when I pointed that out, my super-helpful family just put the tree topper on it crooked to accentuate it.
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| Breathtaking. |
After they'd all had their fun taunting mom with the goofy-looking tree topper, they finally cut the top branch down to a reasonable height. They probably wouldn't have except we were having people over that night, and Mom doesn't play around when we're having people over.
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| Much better. |
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A look at my Monday to-do list should provide you with a snapshot of my glamorous life:
After one of my kids threw up green smoothie all over the van like they were audition for The Exorcist, I'd cleaned up quickly in the 30° weather and the freezing wind after but apparently not well enough.
I was alerted to a lingering smell later on, and had to go back out there a second time the next day when it was just as cold to do a deep clean. And what I learned from that experience is that Mother's Day once a year is just not often enough.
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The 14-year-old has been hoarding fingernail gadgets, paraphernalia, and styling tools for a few months and is now walking around like this:
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| Winning the award for Most Festive so far. |
The nails themselves are extensions (which I guess is Gen Alpha for "fake nails") but you guys, none of these designs are stickers. She did them by hand using a combination of nail art tools and witchcraft.
Not only do I not think I have the coordination to do that, I don't have the eyesight, either. I have to blow up pictures of the instructions on the back of prescription bottles with my phone so I don't accidentally overdose.
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Unlike my daughter, I'm more at the level of these super-easy yet snowflake crafts that I did with my boys this week:
The only materials you need are paper, Scotch tape, and a stapler, and the instructions are so easy to follow.
(Full disclosure, we did make the cuts in the wrong direction twice, but I'm pretty craft-challenged so that's to be expected.)
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| Yes, the 9-year-old has been wearing that Santa hat nonstop, even to school, ever since he found it in the bin with the Christmas decorations over Thanksgiving weekend. |
We made a few and hung them from the railing across the hallway, and they look way fancier than they actually are.
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We haven't really started our Christmas shopping yet, although I've been writing little notes to myself for the last few months whenever I notice that someone in the family needs something.
It's funny because we have one child who never wants anything, and another child with a running online wishlist who constantly drops hints so hard I worry they're going to give themselves a hernia. How can they both have come from the same people and the same household?
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Aside from feeling spied on, I did get a lot out of this video. (I plan to watch it again later because I already forgot everything I learned the first time I watched it.)
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