Merry Christmas and welcome back to my blog!
What a time has happened in this little house! Most of life in Katimavik is self directed and it is up to us to keep our days busy and make sure that things happen and are planned out right. And often, we need to plan on the fly if/when a plan falls through. Its an important skill to have: both making plans and reworking them.
We had an interesting if not unconventional Christmas. Since every one had different traditions, we tried to cover as many as we could. We watched the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, read Twas The Night Before Christmas, and stayed up all night to open presents at way to early. I believe that the actual time I began opening presents was 4 am. Which is acceptable simply because it was 8 am at home, when my real family was opening their presents, a country away. It was a bizarre feeling.
Every one has things about Christmas that just develop into your family as the years go by. For me, every Christmas eve, we play a board game and look at Christmas lights. I really missed that.. It was nights like that that I really really missed some of the things about home. One thing was my bed. The beds in Katimavik aren't exactly luxury. Metal bunk beds with plastic mattresses. I miss my bed at home, the one with a little groove where I like to lay each night, and the pillows that I arrange just so. I miss the easy understanding of how a day works in my house hold. Like I said, Katimavik day is never solid in plans.
Currently, a big topic of conversation is the Murder Mystery Party we have planned for New Years Eve. (this is a plan I know will come through. I worked way to hard on it for it to fall though!) I, with the much needed and very appreciated help of my three helpers, wrote the whole nights plot. Characters, costumes, drama, its all starting to come out after I gave out the character bios last night. I am so excited to see it come to a head by friday night! I will try to keep this more updated (and I know I say that every time).
Much Love
Every day is a new adventure, so No worries
Good Job on planning a murder mystery! Glad to see you are writing in some way or another. You were certainly missed at Christmastime. We're hoping this is our only Christmas without the whole family for a while now. We did indeed look at the Christmas lights, but a board game was difficult- there's not that many you can play with three. and Maddy, without an opposable thumb, was lousy at rolling the dice.
ReplyDeleteHang in there kiddo, you have us all at home rooting for you- and sending good vibes right across the country.
Hugs.
PG