MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

Christmas Vacation

It's funny how Christmas vacation changes from when you're a kid to when you're an adult. Now I do have the luxury of being a stay-at-home mom, so we really all do get a vacation. And for the kids (the same as when I was a kid), the vacation is all about Not Having to Go to School, combined with New Toys. Really, it is a kid's paradise, those two combined.

For adults, it's all about Sleep! I can stay up late, watching movies and reading books, then not pay the penalties in the morning because I can sleep in until 10 am! I'm not having to get up and do the school morning routine, which involves dragging myself out of bed, showering, trying to get my groggy, unwilling children out of bed, yelling at them to get dressed, trying to throw together a breakfast and lunches, more yelling to keep eating and quit goofing, trying to get them to find all their school stuff, sign last-minute field trip forms, look for missing mittens, until we all pile in the van and drive them to school. It is not one of the high points of my day. And so, my Christmas vacation is a vacation from all of that... and getting to sleep!

Last night four of us played a new game, Apples to Apples. I highly recommend it-- it says it's for kids 12 and up, but our younger DS was playing it when he was 8. I love playing games like this that get us laughing so hard that someone almosts pees their pants! We don't do family game night nearly enough...