27 days until Christmas

So we’ve started some holiday adventures. We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Day weekend – very quiet and simple – a much needed theme for our family right now. We missed our New Jersey, Utah, and Washington peeps very much, but enjoyed spending time with new friends and neighbors.

We shared our meal with a new faculty member in the dance department and her husband (who is from Burkina Faso in West Africa) and their adorable 15 month old daughter. eaw didn’t eat much, but he discovered fudge (he’s gonna love Aunt Carolyn this year). The following morning brought the first (very light) snowfall of the year so eaw and I set up a few holiday villages, decorations and stockings to get the holiday season started. On Saturday evening, we took Hathaway and eaw to the zoo to see the lights and even take a gander at Santa Claus himself. There were real live reindeer – and eaw got to touch an antler. Later Hathaway’s mom joined us at home and we were greatly entertained by the antics of two adorable friends.

A side note – eaw is wearing big boy pants and has stayed dry/clean for three days in a row! Granted he chose to celebrate by wearing his big boy pants on his head, but still – we are very proud of him.

Oh, and besides the quiet weekend, we painted our bedroom – “Lunar Eclipse” and mtw updated the electrical in the basement, filled in a cement floor, and made short work of cleaning the house. It’s coming along, for any potential visitors!