How I spent My Winter Break

So my work had a shutdown for the holidays... from the 21st of December till the 2nd of January (this means I go back tomorrow).. This meant that I got to spend lots of time with the girls... something I don't get to do very much at all now that I'm working.

I feel like I got a lot done and yet still got nothing done at all.. but I had a great time. We started our break with one last dance class for Lily for 2012. Then we had a bunch of visitors the next day... Noreen and Natalie showed up with a Gingerbread Castle to put together, a Princess Candy Land game and Princess decorations for the girls room. They no sooner left and our friends Joe and Peggy showed up to take us out to dinner and then a visit to the Zoo for a Christmas lights display followed by opening presents from them.

Christmas Eve brought a visit to the Cousins house to have dinner and open a few presents..

We got home just in time to leave out some cookies and Chocolate milk for Santa before going to bed with visions of all the fun new stuff that Santa was sure to leave us.

Christmas Day was really nice.. Santa gave us lots of fun stuff.. like Princess Duplo building sets, new baby dolls, a new baby stroller, more Calico Critters, games, Mini Lalaloopsy sets...

We spent the next day in Boston with a visit to the Children's Museum and getting to participate in a play in the Kidstage area. We also got to visit a Kindergarten Classroom exhibit. Both girls loved that quite a bit. Afterwards we headed over to South Station to have a Pizza lunch and got surprised by getting to see a Train Display in the station itself.

I sent the girls to Daycare for the next 2 days so that I could get my Will signed and notarized and see the movie Les Miserables. I also got a chance to go to the mall by myself and have lunch out with my mom. The next 2 days were full of 2 more trips to the mall and finally some snow...

We ended 2012 with a sledding adventure and then going to get some Hot Chocolate and Pizza to warm up. The sledding was lots of fun for all of us.. Both girls didn't seem too sure about it at first but after a couple of trips down the hill with Mommy in the back of the sled, they warmed up to it and kept wanting to go again..

We spent our last day of the break going to an indoor play area with all sorts of fun bouncy houses.  We even met up with a co-worker of mine from work and then I noticed a HS friend and her son there too. Before we went though we had an impromptu snowball fight that Lily started.

I'm not exactly looking forward to going back to work tomorrow but I like the fact that I won't need to play referee to anyone and that I'll get to have conversations without 20 interruptions happening.