Holiday Secret

We are back in town and trying to survive the last week of school-- projects

parties and concerts galore.

Kean had therapy school yesterday-- and according to his therapists

he had his best day ever (even though he ran our of energy again).

Greer had her big orchestra holiday concert - she is standing smack

dab in the middle-- looking all serious.

 When we took off for our long weekend to to go Camp Rainbow Gold's

Family Winter Retreat-- it seems like we missed about half a million

Christmas parties, open houses, orchestra practices and on and on.

And you know what?  Part of me was quite relieved to be out of town.

Every year the Christmas season seems to become a bigger and bigger blur

as we try to make it to way too many activities and events.

It was refreshing to spend a chunk of the days leading up to Christmas

focused on our family.

I've come back home with a lot less stress than if I'd stayed home.

p.s. as part of my de-stressing-- this is the closest we'll

get to getting Christmas cards out this year.

Merry Christmas everyone.  Happy holidays and

here's hoping we can all take time to enjoy being in the holidays-- not blurring through them.