Two smallish girls are running around the first floor, high on hot chocolate. We are feeling festive and fighting the gloom away (the post-holiday, rainy day gloom), so we began getting ready for our next holiday celebration already. Wow this begins early!
Today, we’ve dragged out some of our Christmas decorations, and we’re getting ready to make paper menorahs in preparation for the first day of Hanukkah. No, we won’t be dousing our paper menorahs with olive oil and putting them to flame (although that does sound fun). We’re going to make paper flames, too. Yes, I could purchase a real menorah, but I figure, THIS way, my house won’t be burned down by a 3 year old.
This year, we’re celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas and Yule, because we don’t want to choose, and because we are freaks with too much time on our hands. Well, there’s a better reason, actually, but I sound so snooty when I talk about what the husband and I are trying to teach our kids that I’d really rather spare you.
So, the next step is calming down the sugar/chocolate frenzied kids and putting glue and scissors in range! And maybe a call to the psychiatrist as well, so I can set up my next recovery!