Jackson's school activities

I can not say enough how much I LOVE Jackson's school! I like that it's a Christian environment so they have REAL Christmas activities and programs. The kids are so excited this time of year and I like that even at school Jackson is reminded that Christmas is about Christ.

Jackson had his first Christmas program. It was the story of Christ's birth. SO SO SO cute!! I get so emotional when I think about how much Jackson has grown up already. Just being at a school for a program for him made me tear up while I waited anxiously to see him. Then I saw him walk out in his little angel outfit and I cried uncontrollably. In fact, I'm tearing up again just thinking about it. What is wrong with me?!?! Jackson did perfectly! He was loud and irreverent. He wouldn't keep his little angel halo on and loudly told his teacher that he no longer needed it right in the middle of the program. He picked his nose (which, honestly, he doesn't even do at home- I guess that's for special public occasions only). He loudly told the music teacher that he wanted to go sit with his mommy and daddy (several times). And he ~~yelled~~ sang so loudly that I could hear him above all the other children. But my most favorite part was when he first took his place on the stage and then started frantically looking for Jim and me. You could see excitement and relief on his face when he finally saw us. I was so proud of my beautiful boy even with the nose picking and acts of irreverence. Oh, how I love my real life angel!

Today was Jackson's first school Christmas party. He had a lot of fun and made a cute snowman and ate really good food. He was so excited!

Well, since it's Christmas and Jackson now has a teacher we got to make his teacher an ornament for a gift. Jackson painted the letter "K" (for Mrs. Kennedy) gold all by himself. I might have done a little touching up, but he pretty much painted it by himself. The ornament turned out so cute I made an "N" for our tree. I think this might be the start of a Christmas tradition- the boys will make their teachers ornaments. You can never have too many ornaments.

He was so proud of himself.

Here's the final product. I told you it was cute! We have run out of Christmas cards so I made Mrs. Kennedy a card.

Comments

Maybe a new birthday tradition...

I just have one brother and his birthday is 5 days before mine, so it's been pretty easy to keep up with him. Jim, however, has 3 brothers and a sister, and now 3 of his siblings are married, so the birthday's just keep adding up. My forgetful brain can NOT keep up. Anyway, I've been looking for a cute and thoughtful way to send birthday greetings to all the aunts and uncles since we've been married. Almost 4 years later I think I finally have an idea! My idea is to make a birthday sign every year and have the boys take a picture with the sign for whatever family member has a birthday. Then send the person the picture with birthday greetings. Then every year they will have a different picture with the boys as they grow and I won't feel guilty missing anyone's birthday without proper acknowledgement. I also thought that it would make a great photo album for us if we keep each person's birthday picture with the boys and watch their growth progression ...

Can I finally join the club??

I have issues with making anything with yeast. It scares me. I tried making rolls or bread in home-ec as a kid and it was a FLOP! Since, I stay far away from baking goods with yeast, so of course, that includes homemade bread. I LOVE homemade bread, but I've never made it. I realize I'm not a real Mormon wife and mother because of this huge flaw, but I've managed to make it as a so-so wife and mom with this awful glitch in my character. Then I came across an "easy" recipe for honey wheat bread (thanks for posting it on fb Liz Nuffer) and decided to conquer my fear of yeast. First things first, I had to buy yeast- there are 394 different kinds of yeast. No one warned me how many different kinds there were! My fear began to overcome me, but I gathered all my strength and picked the most interestingly plain kind I could find. Hopefully it would do the trick! I followed the recipe, but it said to wait until the yeast "frothed". ...

It's time to play catch-up

I haven't updated the blog in awhile because life has been VERY busy. Lots of new things happening, but that's for another day, another blog. A week or so ago we had a special breakfast, we had dessert for breakfast, strawberry shortcake. Austin LOVED it, but he's not a picky eater. Jackson, however, was not impressed with this special treat. It was like pulling teeth just to get him to try it, then he responded with, "it's delicious!", but wouldn't take another bite. I even made fresh whipped cream which he usually loves, but he wasn't interested. Anyway here are the boys with their special breakfasts. I recently posted about the new chore chart that I made for Jackson and it is going SO well!! I thought he would flip out with the 15 minutes of game time, but he doesn't. He really likes moving the magnets around on the chart and cashing in chores for nickels every night. He even knows how to use the timer for his 15 minutes of game time. ...

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