Winter Holiday Fun

The kids have been pretty excited over the upcoming holidays and winter season. Joseph has been waiting (sort of patiently) for snow, and this morning, it arrived! It was just a dusting but it was plenty to get him and the girls running around the house and looking out windows first thing this morning. We took everyone out to breakfast and right away Joseph had to go run down the driveway to make some footprints, followed by a few almost snowballs thrown at mom and dad. Leah and Hannah put on their snow gear right away when we got home and Joseph wasn't far behind. Earlier in the week we had a "surprise" visit from Santa at our house (Hannah is the only one who really warmed up to him, Leah was most interested in the candy cane, and Joseph I think was just in awe). And then we had fun with Joseph's 4K class teaching his friends the dreidel song and playing the dreidel game. We then donated all the money from the game for the class field trip to Target to pick out gifts for a little girl that the class is sponsoring this holiday season. A few more days of the usual routine (or more like mad scramble) and then our winter break and holiday festivities kick into full gear....can't wait!