Thursday I posted about our “Ice Day” (or lack thereof).  So, I go in and hand the kids pages I’d printed off the net of a Paper Nativity (thanks Lauren).  All four of them begin coloring a page and are having a good time with it I might add.  After they’ve completed it they walk me to the kitchen to unveil the surprise.  “Oh my goodness!  This is beautiful!” I exclaim.  They smile proudly and all begin to talk at once telling me who did what.  “Let me get the camera guys!”  And I go looking for it.  Camera in hand, I return to the kitchen and position myself in front of their art.  Power on….nothing.  “Um, the camera won’t come on,” I say in frustration.  I couldn’t get it to power on no matter what I did (not a big surprise).  That was how that entire day went.  Anything I set out to accomplish seemed to be foiled in some way.  Even trying to post the blog entries I did that day was a fiasco!  ( No need to go into all that lol).

So, I have no photo of their sweet nativity but we did order a new camera today.  Hopefully we’ll be able to actually take pictures on Christmas.  After the nativity project was Quiet Time and then after that I found Lee working in the front room on his school work.  “What are you doing son?” I wanted to know. 

“My work,” he replied simply. 

“Why?”

“Because I want to start Christmas break,” he answered. 

I paused for a moment….”You know what?  We’re starting our break right now.  No more school till January.” 

He stared at me, “Really?” 

“Really.”

“Cool!”  And with that he put away his pencil box and ran from the room.

So, it’s official, well, as official as it can be when you homeschool lol.  School’s out till the New Year!  We’ll be about one week behind my original schedule.  Not a big deal really.