I remember years ago when I was little, that I would wake up around 4 a.m. on Christmas morning along with my brothers and sisters, and we would clang the cowbell around the house, yelling "Merry Christmas!. Mom and Dad would roll over, tell us to open our stockings, and they would be up later. Around 5 a.m. they would appear - I can only imagine how late they were up the night before! We would rip into our presents and had everything open by 6 a.m. and ready to start the day!
Tony tells me that he would stand in front of his parents as they were sleeping on Christmas morning(around 4 a.m. also) They would sense his presence and tell him to go back to bed!
Now, on our Christmas morning, I still wake up relatively early - I just can't get past the excitement of early Christmas morning! Nicholas woke up at 7 a.m., and we sent him to go wake up Michael at 7:30 a.m. We even sent them to bed early, and they just can't get into waking up early on Christmas!
Ever since I told my mother-in-law about my Raggedy Ann doll I got for Christmas when I was young(I don't remember how old I was), she has gotten me a new doll for Christmas. Today I got three dolls - two of them were dressed as a Cowgirl and Cowboy, respectively. The other was a Dorothy doll from the Wizard of Oz. My sister-in-law didn't even know that 10 of my students were chosen to be Munchkins in the high school production of the Wizard of Oz, and that I've been telling them all about the show!
It was a wonderful day!
I had five classes worth of 2nd graders performing at the Sing-Along. They sang about 10 holiday songs, along with a few other songs that they really wanted to perform. One of the songs "Risseldy Rosseldy" is a very difficult song to enunciate, but they sang it so well that the teachers commented on how well they understood the singing.
After the sing-along, I arranged to leave school a bit early so I could be at Michael's school for his Culture Day presentation(I really appreciate teaching in the same district where I live which makes this possible!). Michael researched England's animals(red deer), natural resources(coal), authors(J.K. Rowling), and food(oatmeal cookies, bread pudding). Then we served his classmates bread pudding. I couldn't believe the number of children and adults who had never tried bread pudding before!
After we got home, Nicholas and Michael built a snowman who will hopefully last for a few days before he melts!
Nicholas and Michael were very happy with the snow! Nicholas was happy to see it, and Michael was ecstatic to be able to throw it, run in it, and everything else you can do with snow!