without whipped cream, sans creme



avec du creme, with whipped cream



It's starting, ca commence




retaliation, la revanche




Escalating, escalader



My friend Marie came up with Advent socks.  The socks are numbered and inside each is a piece of paper with an activity for the day.  Wow, what a great idea.  Instead of socks I made a flip advent calendar.  I love papercrafting.  Each day we have been flipping over the calendar and reading what we are supposed to do for the day. Some days it doesn't get done such as going to Green's Corner.  Isaac spent the day sleeping on the couch.  We went the next day.  We hurried to finish our school work (except for reading) and then walked down there.  We ordered hot cocoa for the kids, one with whipped cream and two without, and a coffee for me.  I graded papers and the kids read their books.  On the way home it occurred to me that my kids have never walked home from school with a group of other kids. As I watched them walk home together it brought back memories.
I remember walking home and teasing my brother or having a pushing match between the two of us for fun.  We walked home when we lived in Lewistown the first time (3rd grade for me and Kindergarten for Jon).  We had to walk through a horse pasture and one day he got to close to the horse and was kicked.  That horse pasture is now a large town park.  We walked home in Salt Lake (4th/5th grade and 1st/2nd grade for him).  Some days if we had a quarter we'd stop at a lady's house who sold suckers for 25 cents to kids after school.  Then when we moved back to Lewistown, we'd walk home until we were in high school and then we'd ride home with our Mom.  After my 6th grade year we were never again in the same school at the same time - so we never again had those pushing/teasing/laughing wars on the way home.

Mon amie Marie a un calendrier pour advent qui sont des chausettes.  Chaque chausettes a un numero et dedans un papier avec un activite pour chaque jour.  Oh, cette un bon idee.  Je veux faire quelque chose comme ca mais avec papier.  Alors j'ai cree un calendrier avec papier.  Chaque jour nous lisons l'activite du jour.  Un jour c'etait allee chez Greens pour boire des chocolate chaud et un cafe.  Les enfants lisent leurs livres et moi, j'ai corrige des papiers.  Sur le chemin chez nous, je realize ques les enfants n'ont jamais marcher chez nous apres l'ecole.  Je souviens le faire avec mon frere.  En Lewistown, le premier fois que nous l'habitons, il faut que nous avons marcher a travers un paturage de cheval.  Une fois, il etait tros pres des cheval et le cheval lui frappe.  En Salt Lake City, nous avons marcher chez nous.  Si nous avons un peu des pieces de monie, nous avons achete un bonne chez une femme qui les fait.  Apres nous demenagons a Lewistown encores, nous avons marche ensemble pour une annee et apres nous ne sommes pas dans le meme ecole.