Creeper Claus

Straight from the world of Minecraft, it's Creeper Claus!  Madison really plays this game a lot, and with that in mind, apparently Jingle Bell set off to create a Minecraft world, turning himself into one of the bad characters in the game.  Creeper is an appropriate name for these guys - they give me the creeps!

This is a game that all the kids are into right now.  It's interesting because there is no clear objective to the game, except in one mode, simple survival I guess.  Madison avoids that part of the game, and spends her time building houses or things like that.  She loves the themed worlds, including a Halloween one or a Christmas themed one.

We had ballet today, and the campus there at Brenau is really quiet with all the students off for winter break.  Mommy and Daddy were doing a bit of shopping while Madison was dancing, but we kept talking about this one thing that happened:  we got a call from a radio station.  That's a teaser for something that's going to happen hopefully later on this week...!

Today being Monday, we did a tremendous amount of wrapping, and I can say we're really close to being finished with the wrapping this year.  It was a metric ton of wrapping paper we went through this morning/afternoon, and it was quite a task.  But we stuck to it, watching Christmas movies along the way like 'Miracle on 34th Street" and "The Bells of St. Mary's."  We listened to the radio some, especially the stations that play Christmas music.

Madison has no homework this week, and after tomorrow, not much in the way of piano homework either.  It's going to be an easy week for her in that respect.  She has a persistent cough at the moment though, one that means we have Vix on her feet and chest, and one of those humidifiers on next to her bedside.

At least she's coughing now, and not later on as we get closer to Christmas.  Hopefully this will pass soon... because Christmas is creeping up on us!