Christmas busy-ness

School's out! Yay! We had our home school co-op party on Tuesday, where we caroled a nursing home and decorated cookies and ate pizza. We had a good turn-out, and it's always good to see the kids interacting with each other. Wednesday was our AWANA store and Christmas party and the last one until January (she said with exceeding great joy). Thursday afternoon we went to Rebecca's school to watch the 4 classes on her wing put on a little Christmas program. It was SO CUTE! I loved it. If you watch the video you'll see Rebecca's dance moves. Ha!
Friday I drove the girls 3 hours to Conway where we had lunch with my Mom, then we met up with Mike and a bunch of students and they followed us another 3 hours to Rogers where we got to see Chris Tomlin and Louie Giglio's "Glory in the Highest" tour. It was indescribable. (No pun intended. Okay, it was.) Seriously, it was a very moving, worshipful experience. I loved it. We also had supper and spent the night with Chuck and Holly and Kate and Grayson. They were very good friends of ours our first year and a half in Magnolia, and we've missed them a bunch since they moved. It was great spending a little time with them.
On our way home yesterday the girls and I stopped to visit my Mom again, and my brother Matt and his family, who are spending Christmas there before moving to Colorado Springs. It's been a year and a half since we've seen them, so that was fun. We'll get to see them again Christmas day.
It was dark the last hour of our drive, so we judged the Christmas lights we saw to pass the time. Our neighborhood won. :)
We also kept track of state license plates on the trip, and would you believe we saw 31 states, just driving 6 hours and back, all within the state of Arkansas? I guess there's no place like home for the holidays.