Scrooge and the Ghostbusters

Tonight we watched the first Christmas special of the season, which tied nicely to the theme of October:  "Ghostbusters:  Xmas Marks the Spot."  This also ties to our "Humbug" theme that will be hopefully pretty big in December.

Yes, we're returning to "A Christmas Carol" on December 3rd, and it will be the best we've ever done.  We have a monster cast, and the set looks amazing already.  The messages have been solidified, and each day, Daddy's been writing about two devotional entries entirely based on the book and the movies.  So far, I'm at about day fifteen of twenty five, so hopefully that will be done towards the end of next week.

Meanwhile, "Get a Clue" continues, and this week we'll have the entire cast on stage.  Can't wait to get a picture of that.  The clues are dropped one bit at a time, and soon enough we'll discover what happened to Sherlock Holmes, and hopefully stopped the robbery of the Crown Jewels!  We have so much fun at KidPak.

As for the special tonight, it's a pretty fun concept.  The Ghostbusters travel back in time and capture the three ghosts that haunt Scrooge in the classic story.  And because they stop the ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge doesn't change.  In fact, he is empowered by the victory of the ghosts, and he goes on to declare victory over Christmas, killing it once and for all.  Obviously the Ghostbusters have to rescue the ghosts, but until then, three of them each take the place of the ghosts in an attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways.

It's a fun holiday cartoon that Daddy has recorded on DVD.  The same disc has a Flintstones Christmas Carol and one with the Jetsons in it too.  These will be fun to watch again, as will Mr. Magoo.  I'm going to try to watch as many as we can this season, and in fact Mommy and Daddy were thinking about getting tickets to see it on stage.  It'll be a fun theme for the season, although we certainly have plans to do other things too.

Although it was after Halloween tonight, Madison was still in costume.  All the kids got to wear their costumes all week to ballet, and so Madison chose her Wonder Woman costume.  It was jazz and ballet night, so it was a longer night. Mommy did some grocery shopping and got all caught up, while Daddy was at work.  Mommy is getting things ready for Thanksgiving, already picking up a few things here and there.  The dining room is getting set up and cleaned up, and it'll be a really nice day here.  It's not too early to plan.

It's not too early to plan a lot, actually.  Yes, we're looking at making Christmas lists and doing a bit of shopping and so on.  It won't be long until it's Christmas, and we're starting a bit early this year so it won't be all rushed and at the last minute.

So we're off to bed now.  We read to Madison a bit from the devotional, and we prayed together.  Now Mommy and Daddy are back to season two of "Stranger Things."  This is one of those shows all of the staff seems to be racing through - we're on episode two so far, and I think we'll watch a couple of episodes tonight.  I don't think they're holiday-themed episodes though.  In fact, I'm pretty sure of it.  The ones we saw last night took place on Halloween, which is pretty much fitting, given the nature of the show.  The main characters were even dressed up like Ghostbusters for their costumes.  Which sort of brings things full circle, doesn't it?  Who ya' gonna' call?