The first weekend of December my BFF and her hubby blessed their baby in Ephraim and since it was the week before Jake’s directorial debut he figured he better stay and direct the final few practices for his play. So once again a single mother for the weekend, I loaded up the kids and headed North. I am always so thankful that my kids are good travelers most of the time but even more thankful that I am not a full time single mother because I would probably go crazy. Anyway, we got there Friday afternoon and my mom decided that while we were there she would have my kids help them decorate for Christmas since they didn’t have any decorations up yet. Well Saturday morning comes along and Emily and I are roped into carrying all the decorations up from the basement. I never realized how much Christmas stuff my mom has! I think it has possibly doubled since I lived there 10 years ago. As we were looking for all the Christmas stuff we found a box of old Halloween costumes. As Emily and I reminisced about the old costumes we had worn many many years ago (a giant Clifford costume that she could maybe still squeeze into, or the many times I was a witch or princess because I just didn’t care that much about Halloween), Ethan started trying stuff on.

This was his favorite thing that he found and he proceeded to wear that goofy mask off and on all day long.

We finally got all the stuff upstairs and Ethan started helping my mom set up her Christmas village. Once that got set up my dad brought the tree in and Ethan was so excited to decorate another tree. My parents have nice glass ornaments (why I don’t know, we have the super cheap unbreakable kind and they are great!) so we had to instruct Ethan to hang anything breakable as high as he could reach so that Olivia wouldn’t get them. They did have a few wooden and plastic ones that we let Olivia hang on the lower part of the tree which made the tree look a little mismatched (I wish I had gotten a picture of it, but alas).  Eventually a couple of boxes were emptied and what do you do with big empty boxes? Play in the them of course!

I’m not sure how much help they were, but they sure enjoyed themselves!

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