Today, I fulfilled my recent daydream of sleeping in. I do not think I got out of bed until 10:45. Lily, on the other had, was being productive from early on by helping the kids with their music practice. I eventually wandered into the music room and enjoyed listening to Mary and Lydia practice. They are getting so good! The low notes of Lydia’s “Watching the Wheat” just melt me, and “Linus and Lucy” which Mary is now playing is so fun to listen to. All three kids worked hard on their instruments (Ammon had his practice before I arrived) and it was awesome that Lily helped them to knock their music out early so we could enjoy the rest of the day as a family.
After Lily and I worked out, we decided it was time to explain Santa Clause to Clarissa since she has been asking about magic and what is real and what is not lately. We captured everything on video.
After explaining everything to Clarissa, we asked how she felt, and she said, “alarmed”. We had her repeat it on camera since we thought that was so adorable.
We then all packed up and went to Ikea to get desks for Mary and Clarissa (their Christmas wishes) as well as a table and chairs for the basement so we can always have a puzzle going. Clarissa fell asleep on the way to Ikea. I assume her sweet brain was heavily processing all her new information about the world!
We LOVED our meal at Ikea as we always do, and all the kids really enjoyed interacting with all the displays. Lily and I compared it to going to Lagoon (and for roughly the same cost, only we end up with furniture) in terms of how much fun everyone had.
The desks were out of stock, but now we know which ones we want. Everyone had a really good time!
At home, Lily worked on Christmas shopping by the fire, while I assembled some new chairs for the basement. Today was a really happy and fun family day!
