Holiday Weekend

We have been enjoying our 4-day holiday weekend. It's been nice to have lots of time with the kids, even if it has meant a louder house with less accomplished throughout my days. Samuel was so excited for the weekend that he woke up at 4:50am on Saturday and didn't go back to sleep!! He has adjusted a bit since then and didn't get up to 7:45 this morning, so that was nice but will make it hard to get up early again for school tomorrow.

On Sunday, Emma spent the afternoon at Catherine's house. It was her birthday present to get to hang out with her and she had lots of fun with her decorating her tree and getting treated to McDonald's for lunch. Emma was so cute because she had her little backpack all packed and ready to go three days prior.

The rest of us took the opportunity to enjoy the Christmas street fair in Caselle on the way home from church. Lots and lots of stands from food to textiles to handcrafted items. It was a tad chilly but fun to just walk around for a couple of hours. We are thinking that maybe next year "Reset" can have a stand to sell things and get our name out there in the community while raising monies for a charitable/social cause (PLC maybe?) as we saw other groups doing. Always needing to think and plan ahead, so we'll tuck that thought into our list of future projects.

There was some sort of cow exhibition there as well. Not sure if they were selling them or there for competition, but there were a ton of them. The boys enjoyed getting up close to them and listening to their enormous bells clanging around their necks. Some of the bells were so big there is no way the cow could have bent it's head down to eat.

As soon as Jonathan snapped this picture the cows all started pulling on the makeshift fence at once. Luca was the only one not phased.

Monday we had a craft day with the Farina boys here at our house. We had invited two other families but they were unable to come. Maybe it was a good thing because trying to do crafts with 6 kids, 8 and under was quite enough for two moms to handle. Not to mention working with 5 boys. My kids and I made sugar cookies in the morning and then the kids decorated them in the afternoon. Sprinkles and frosting everywhere but that is part of the whole fun of cookie decorating.



From there we went on to stamp some cards. It was a semi-success. I had prepared 50 cards with a simple design for them to stamp and assemble, but in the end they preferred the blank white cards to make their own creations. It has been a super long time since I have stamped so it was fun to bring out that stuff again and to see the kids really having fun with it too.

Diego and Luca did some dot art--definitely more appropriate for their ages. Luca was doing a great job, taking his time in painting his picture and being very precise. Great job buddy!




After those two projects the kids were burnt out and so we didn't even attempt the more messy stuff like decoupage that Barbara had brought to do. Our afternoon soon turned in to evening so we concluded with snacks for the kids and a cup of coffee for the tired moms--that was our snack at 6:30, with dinner following about an hour later.