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Harris Happenings
December
1998
 Where
has the time gone?
Good grief, Charlie Brown! Where has the time
gone? Is it already mid-December? We have been trying to get
ourselves together for the Christmas holidays this year, but we got off
to a late start. Jenny was on a business trip from Nov 30th to Dec
9th, so it feels a little like Christmas is rushing ahead of us this year.
But not to worry, we're getting everything all straightened out, and soon
will be all settled in.
While
Jenny was gone...
While Jenny was off travelling, David and the kids
had lots of things to do. They went to visit the Symphony of Lights,
the annual 1.5 mile long drive through millions of lights on display to
benefit the local hospital. Each year, there is a special aspect
of the display which you are supposed to pin-point. Last year you
were supposed to try to find the one blue lightbulb which was in
the display. This year, you were supposed to identify one single elf in
all the light sculptures. Mike and Kim found it without any trouble,
of course. We will all be going back to see the lights together one
more time this year, and Mike and Kim promise not to show Jenny where the
elf is - she has to find it on her own.
The gang also went to see "A Bug's Life" - and it
was a hit! They went out to dinner once at Pizza Hut to celebrate
Mike's reading accomplishments for the month of November. They went
to swimming lessons like normal. They also went to their first ever Baltimore
Blast professional indoor soccer game. Too bad the Blast lost, pretty
badly at that. Mike says he'd like to go again, to see if they can win.
He says he'd have to see it to believe it, considering how poorly they
played when he saw them this first time!
Christmas
Shopping
Well, this part of Christmas is actually not too
bad this year! Jenny picked up a few items on her trip early in the month,
and the other items are either already purchased, or there are concrete
plans to get them in the near future. Then the shopping will be done, and
the season can be best enjoyed just for the joy of it. We went out
on a limb this year, and actually made our own Christmas cards. Jenny
embossed them and decorated them with a dab of glitter, and David wrote
the messages inside. However, we weren't ready for the amount of
glitter that would be all over everything just from those cards!
(and the hotel maids probably weren't ready for it either, since Jenny
did some of the work while she was on her trip.)
Annual
Daycare Holiday Sing-along
On Friday Dec 18th, we'll be all going to the daycare
center to see Kim's class and the others in their annual holiday sing-along
party. Each class learns a few songs to sing on their own, and then
the whole daycare learns some to sing together. It is always an adorable
sight, with the kids dressed up in holiday clothes, shaking jingle bells,
trying to sing, but mostly waving to their moms and dads in the audience.
Christmas and Hannukah from the kids' points of
view
Kim has been practicing her songs at home, and is
especially proud of the Hannukah songs she has learned, becuase she says
they're harder because they're longer. Her teacher and some of her
friends celebrate Hannukah, so her class has been learning about the menorah
and the other customs surrounding that holiday. She says that one
of her friends is a "lucky duck", because his mom is Jewish and his dad
is Christian, so he gets to celebrate both Hannukah and Christmas!
On the home front though, Kim has been busy playing
with the baby Jesus and the other figures in the new nativity scene that
Jenny brought home from her business trip. Kim loves to move them
all around, making up stories about the people.
Jenny was showing the new nativity figures to Mike,
and was asking if he could name them. He had no trouble with
baby Jesus, Mary, and the three wise men. When he got to Joseph, he said
"That's baby Jesus' dad. Well, it's really his step-dad." Out
of the mouths of babes!
Making
Lists
Mike and Kim have both been fairly modest with their
Christmas wish lists this year. Early in the season they both asked
for new bikes, but they've kind of forgotten about those requests, and
lately if you ask them what they want, they both ask for one or two specific
toys, and then say that's all. Santa should have no trouble keeping
them happy this year.
To
all our friends and family...
We'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone
a wonderful holiday season, filled with love and the warmth of good friends
and family. Please take time out this holiday season to savor the small
moments which add up to make wonderful memories... and have a very Merry
Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and a wonderful New Year!
Harris Front Door Harris
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