Cloves and Oranges

Madison enjoys any sort of craft, and here you can see her doing something for Mommy:  she's putting cloves into an orange, and doing her own design.  In this case, it's a smiling face.  Mommy made one too, although it is more of a pattern than a face.  The purpose of these is to make the kitchen smell nice, which it now does.  Another purpose is to keep Madison busy!

She has been practicing with piano, of course, and also keeping busy with homework assignments.  This week's letter is the letter "u," which was harder to find things for - but we did:  underwear, unicycle, unicorn, umbrella - and upside-down Christmas tree.  We cut these images out after printing them, and Madison puts them all together on the weekly letter sheet.

Mommy and Daddy are slowly recovering from strep throat, so we weren't out doing too much today - although we did go to another Christmas drama meeting this morning.  Another Christmas thing we did today:  we mailed our stockings.  These are the stockings that Mommy makes each year - she sews fabric together and makes about sixteen to eighteen stockings.  Then she proceeds to stuff them with small toys collected throughout the year, and leftover Halloween candy!  We sent these up to New York, and I think they'll be greatly appreciated.  Mommy always does a good job here, diligent to get these sent off for children who might not have much this Christmas.