Engage Santafication Process!

The Santafication process is engaged!  Today was Saturday, but Daddy didn't go to work - except a few things related to our upcoming series in December.  There it is, the banner we'll be using.  Daddy wrote a few more messages today, and finished his book finally - this one features the Tribes characters at Christmas time:  Luchador, Hero, Gladiator, Pirate, Viking, Ninja and Cowboy.  Plus a few others.  There's going to be a new cartoon, and four great weeks of KidPak fun leading up to Christmas.  It should be loads of fun!

Instead of going out to the office - or anywhere else - we all stayed home today and put some decorations up, listening to Christmas music on the Pandora radio channel, and watching Christmas movies.  Tonight's movie was "Elf," which Madison didn't really remember so much - and this made it even more hilarious.  She was laughing quite a bit throughout the whole thing, and it was just fun watching it with her.

We dragged up our Christmas trees - four of them - and the big thing is that we got Madison's little tree decorated. Or, at least she did.  She did it all by herself this year, hanging up the little ballerinas, princesses and other things she likes.  In the end, it looked quite nice, and in a new spot this year:  in her room, by her bed.  Each night, she likes to see the lights on, illuminating the room with a pinkish glow.  It's somewhat magical, and that's not the last time you'll hear that word for the season.

Daddy got the lights on the rustic tree in the one room, which is always a nice looking room this time of year.  It was a big busy day yesterday, and it was nice to have something close to the total opposite today.

Of course, Madison did some piano practice.  With her upcoming recital, she's been practicing a lot to make sure she does as well as possible.  We have faith in her to do that, of course. She's such a hard worker!

This is probably one of the last Saturdays of the year where we don't go anywhere, but it was such a busy day yesterday.  There were a few options on the calendar, but the best one was to stay home and enjoy each other's company.  We'll hit the ground running again next week, but for now, it's good to enjoy a day of rest.