On Monday night, Rob gave a great Family Home Evening that fit right with my goals for this Christmas season. He talked about being kind to our family members. We talk a lot about service at this time of the year, but my kids aren't always very nice to each other, so I think Rob thought that we should start at home. He had Hurley help him prepare the lesson; she really enjoyed that. They prepared two kinds of paper "tokens." One said, "gotcha" and the other said, "caught you." The idea was to leave "gotcha" tokens when you secretly served others and to award "caught you" tokens when you saw someone being nice to a family member. I've tried to support Rob this week by helping the kids with this and also with rewarding tokens to the kids. I hope that it helps my kids to remember to get along better.
Our elf, "elfie," came to the house again this week. He had a successful first two nights getting in to trouble, but then he remained in the same spot for the next three nights. Oops!
I went to help with the nativity set-up on Tuesday night. It was a nice chance to help with the nativity and also to interact with the Laurels a bit. Hopefully, I will be able to make some sort of an impression on them before many of them graduate from High School in a few months.
On Friday, I got to work at Zaya's preschool. She was so cute this time. She wanted to be near me most of the time and I just loved every minute of it! So many of her little girl friends also wanted to sit on my lap and help me, but I was just so excited to spend time with Zaya! I am going to miss her so much next year when she leaves me all day to go to kindergarten.
On Friday night, we had a movie night at home. We made homemade pizza and watched a movie that Rob had picked up from Redbox. The movie wasn't quite a hit, but the pizza and popcorn and relaxing sure were.
Yesterday, I woke up and baked a breakfast casserole for a baby shower. Then, at 11:30, Brooklen had a hockey game. He scored a goal and played really well. Their team was short several players so he had to play almost the entire first 20 minutes and he did play the entire second 20 minutes. At the end, he confessed that he had fun but that he was so tired that by the end he was trying to stay in one general area and hope that someone passed the puck to him.
After the game, I helped get the kids dressed up and then I went to City Forest for a photo session while Rob took the kids to the MCFTA for the Nutcracker. He had gotten free tickets through Chemical Bank (he does business with them). I arrived just before the show began and we all went in to the theater. Kaiton did really well until halfway through the first act the tree grew (this was done digitally) and he got scared. He refused to go in the theater for the rest of the show. I ended up in the "wiggle room" with him for the rest of the ballet, while Rob watched it in the theater with the other kids. Hurley and Zaya enjoyed it, but Brooklen did not like having to go to a ballet. It was my first time seeing a ballet, and honestly, I don't think I would be jumping at a chance to go again!
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