Day 1569. After a long and busy weekend, I was glad that we were all gonna stay home for a change. Except for Sammy who was back at kindergarten after a 4-day break. And at 10:30 I had a student. I was pretty tired. After I was done, it wasn't long until I had to go to the kitchen to cook lunch. It was the first Monday afternoon off this semester, as their music class had ended.

Day 1567. This morning I had my alarm set for 8 am, but Sammy was up early, as usual, and the others got up not long after. We did all the advent calendars, then got ready to leave the house at 9:15. I got the tops of our Christmas pj's out that we all put on to have matching T-shirts. We were going to a Christmas party after all.

Day 1566. Sammy was the first one up again at around 7 am. Soon they were all up, and at some point Randy got up to make breakfast, while I opened the advent calendars with them. I enjoyed the luxury of being able to stay in bed longer. Eventually I got up to dress the kids. Randy then left with Tammy and Emmy at 10 am to take them to piano class.