Many Blessings & Christmas is in the air!!

We have been on the run this month! School projects, programs, tumbling, dancing, cold..you name it we have been doing it! Right after Thanksgiving we had a water leak in our basement. Poor Zora has been displaced from her bedroom ever since. Today we finally put the baseboards back on and tomorrow we will have the furniture moved back where it belongs! There is still a hold in the wall in Zora's room, but we want to make sure that the water issue is gone before we have the hole patched. Sounds kind of crazy, but since it is too cold to use the outside faucet where we think the water came from...we want to wait until we can test it out. Hopefully, this will prevent us from having to have the wall tore down for a third time!

Because of all the water in our basement, it was going to be an adventure to get our big Christmas tree out of storage. Plus, part of the lights on it had quit working last year. So I brought out our little fiber optic tree. The lights are so much prettier on it anyway!



Zora had a project for school to decorate a paper Christmas tree. We came up with a few objects to use and I think it turned out pretty cute!



Tessa will be having a sedated MRI of her heart in January. Once they have that report, her pediatric cardiologist and her team will decide if she needs open heart surgery to repair the aneurysm that was discovered. It is really hard to look at her and think that she has a potential time bomb in her chest that could be ruptured at any time. She has been doing absolutely Fantastic! She is learning so much English that it is hard to believe that she has only been with us since August! The only area she has problems in is reading and she is doing pretty good with that too. As for having another in the house, she has fit in so well, it is almost like she has always been here!

Our "Elf on a Shelf" came to live with us on December 5th. Everyone had a suggestion for his name, we decided to put all the names in a bowl and then His name was drawn randomly. So Dasher has been taking information back to the North Pole and Santa Claus each evening and then reappearing in our house. The girls actually look forward to getting up to see where Dasher is sitting each day. The count down to Christmas is coming soon. Everyone is excited to see what Santa brings.

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!