Dazzling December

December 2008 we are spending Christmas at home!   The past several years we have been with Wendy's family on Christmas Vacations.  While these have been very fun, being at home was a real treat.  Wendy's mom, Barbara (aka Grammie B) came the day after Christmas and stayed through New Years holiday.  It was a perfect holiday season with lots of rest and relaxation while spending time with family.  

Some other December events included my learning I-movie 08 in order to create a DVD for my family and Wendy's family.   I spent over 30 hours scanning photos that I found in our china hutch.  It was fun, but a little overwhelming at the end.   I have the program 75% learned.  The music threw me because the music tracks float around-- when I don't want them to--mind cramp! Taylor performed a Karate routine and is advancing from white to yellow belt.  He loves Karate.  He lost his computer time due to grade issues.  Tonights Family Night was save Taylor's grades.  Wendy and I helped him with Science fair projects, art projects, and make-up or extra credit homework.  

Noel did art with heart dance program to raise money for Shriners Hospital.    Halle attends Challenger three days a week.  She loves her home days more than preschool, but once she is there she responds to the program.   Challenger is outstanding in getting kids a jump start on school while having fun too. 

New Years:  Barbara taught her Winning formula to our family.   Each of us set New Years Resolutions for 2009 in the areas of physical, mental, social and spiritual health.  I liked Barbara's object lesson for developing discipline.  She taught it is like creating a rope one strand at a time.  Each day we do our goals it is similar to adding a strand to rope.  Just as many strands creates a strong rope our daily habits creates discipline in our character.  After the lesson, we enjoyed AppleBee's thanks to Grammie B.