We wish you a Merry Christmas

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale






Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~Mary Ellen Chase

It's out here somewhere

We always go to a cut your own tree farm for our Christmas tree. Usually we go on the first weekend in December - but for various reasons that didn't work for us this year. So we set off on Sunday for a tree hunt.
Our usual places hasn't planted new trees for years, and the pickins are getting slim. So we thought we would try a new place - which is lovely and just down the road.

It's also pretty new and the trees are pretty....short.

We thought we would try to get one at the old place. Except that by then it was past 4:00 and it was cold and a few of our elves were feeling peevish instead of elvish.

So we can home treeless......

Can we just push Christmas back a month or so?

Christmas crafts

We've been busy.

A winter walk

After being basically cooped up for a week for various reasons we got out for a walk in our woods. The light was beautiful and the woods felt like home. It was so good for all of us to get out for a walk by the river. There was even a happy face smiling in the snow by the path as we left.

Hands on learning

I am grateful for the incredible amount of hands on learning my kids experience as homeschoolers.