On Tuesday, Rob had a board meeting. Brooklen had hockey that night, so I took all of the kids to hockey with me. I haven't been to one of his practices in quite a while and I was impressed with his improvement on many of the drills. Still, it was frustrating to be at the civic arena with the younger three kids. I am constantly upset with myself for snapping at them while we are there, but it is so hard to focus on Brooklen's hockey games (or practices) when the younger three are whining and fighting. I vow to myself to try harder to be more patient with them. Hopefully, that will make the experience better.
On Wednesday morning, I spent a couple of hours helping my friend, Tiffany Jaimie, clean out her preschool. She had to shut down the school and needed to be out of the building by Thursday. In the evening, we took the kids to the Santa House. We waited for an hour and a half, but it was worth it. The kids enjoy the tradition of going there and they love seeing the reindeer too. Kaiton loved the reindeer, but he was fiercely afraid of Santa. He didn't want to get anywhere near him. After we came home, I went back to the preschool to help Tiffany for a little bit.
On Thursday night, Zaya had a Christmas program at her school. She has been excited about this for weeks and I was so excited to have her get to have her "own thing." Zaya spends so much time being carted to Brooklen and Hurley's events and she is always having to celebrate their successes. She told me that she needed to get dressed up fancy, so we chose a special dress, pretty leopard print shoes and we did a crown braid in her hair. She was elated during the entire event. She ran around her school like she was queen of the world and she sang her songs so well. Rob commented to me during the event that he was bored, but when I pointed out how excited Zaya was, I think he felt differently.
On Friday night, we decorated the gingerbread house and the gingerbread men that my mom had given us. The kids had so much fun and ate so much candy. Hurley was apparently really impressed with my gingerbread house decorating skills. Even though I didn't really do anything fancy, she kept complementing me. I have to admit that I appreciated every compliment that she gave me!
On Saturday, the kids played around the house in the morning. At noon, Hurley had a gymnastics team Christmas party. I took Zaya and Kaiton and we dropped her off. Then, we ran over to the church to get the choir music for Sunday ready. Brooklen and Rob headed to Brooklen's hockey games in Gladwin. After I picked Hurley up at noon, we all headed out to Gladwin. Hurley was so excited about the stocking full of goodies that she got from the stocking exchange during her party. She chatted about it all the way to Gladwin. We missed most of Brooklen's first game, but we caught the very end. He played two more games that day. I felt a little bad because during the second game I was really annoyed that he wasn't scoring and that he was skating so slow. During the last game, he ended up scoring three goals. The worst part was that I only saw one goal because I was so busy dealing with the younger kids.
On Saturday evening, Brooklen and Rob went to a Saginaw Spirit game with Brooklen's good buddy, Ethan Menzies, and his dad. The younger kids and I went to Meijer to do our grocery shopping and then I picked up McDonalds for them on the way home. We watched a new Barbie movie before bed.
Today was the Christmas program at church. I was sooo nervous about it, but it went really well. The speakers were awesome and the music was wonderful. I think I made some really good, possibly inspired decisions. One of the numbers was a cello solo (which I accompanied) by an older woman in my ward. Pam was actually a cello major in college, but has never owned her own cello. I felt like I should ask her to perform and she actually bought a cello so she could do so. She was very nervous and she was playing on an elementary instrument, but when she performed, she sounded better than I had heard her sound in our practices. I think she was thrilled to be playing again and I felt very grateful I "forced" the opportunity.
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