Hair Today on... Thursday?

Madeline has agreed to be my hair model and thus, I have decided to do hair posts every once and a while.

This is called the Maddie-Twist:
* waterfall braid
* twist
* bun
* bow (there's always time for one)
In that order. We did this for Grandma's Christmas Eve service and, well I had a fun time. :)

It's very beneficial for me that Madeline has volunteered to be my hair-model because I have chopped off my hair. :) Not I, (said the cat) but a lady at the salon. So, for a while, you will just see my sisters' heads of hair for show.









Hope you all had an excellent year of 2015. Be prepared to start writing 2016 at the end of your dates now!

~me

Here with Us ~

Lived the life He lived,

So He could die the death He died,

So that we could live the life He is.

Merry CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Decorating

We got to go and decorate cookies with our dear friends the other day. Sarah and I decided that we should make Disney characters out of the gingerbread men.

Grace, Emily, Sarah, me, Hannah

Kristoff, Elsa, Anna, Hans, Peter Pan,
Tinkerbel, Flynn, Rapunzel

Later that week, I had to make cupcakes - I told my kids at Classical Conversations that if they had the first 11 verses memorized for Psalm 103, I would have made cupcakes for them. I brought over 2 dozen, and they were almost all gone when I got home. I was very pleased with their work. At the end of the year, I'm going to have them say the whole chapter and hopefully record the whole thing without the knowing. :)

They did such a good job! :)

Hey - it might happen! :)

It's December

Three weeks till Christmas!
Grandma's Christmas Brunch was today, the last one after 37 years. We started going 11 years ago when Rescue was singing. We've all really enjoyed getting to go - whomever of us are available, but it's been a tradition - and it's been fun. Everyone thought that Bethany was one of my sisters - I mean, she looks like one of us and the people from my grandparents church don't see us that much, just once a year at the Brunch in fact. :)

Our cat, Little Christmas

What family plans and traditions do you have in December? It's a very fun month (we have Ben, Zach, and Dad's birthdays all in December too)! I love many Christmas songs - non of them have played on the radio so far, but I decided I would go ahead and put one on my blog (that's what I hope to do whenever I do a blogpost this month).

I hope the beginning of your Christmas is going well.