Getting ready for Christmas

Lukas, Noah and Mamma pulled all the boxes down from the garage and stacked them in our hallway. Although we do a lot of the 3 Rs, this day school involved Interior Design - ie Christmas decorating. Lukas and Noah had fun unpacking and placing the various Christmas artifacts that we have collected over the years. Empty cookie tins got stacked up ready to be filled with yummy treats, linens are piling up for laundry and the tables and flat surfaces of our house are decked out ready for Christmas.
After dinner and shower, Noah settled in with one of the best things he found in the Christmas box - a story book. And it is not just any story book, it is the  It Was the Night Before Christmas, which we read every year on Christmas Eve in according with the Severinghaus' traditions.
Last year Pappy sent us a brand new edition of the book complete with a recording of Pappy reading it! Noah thoroughly enjoyed his story hour with Pappy, although Pappy most likely was sound asleep at this very hour back in MO.  Noah read and listened at least three times before we had to call it quits, it was time for everyone to go to sleep.