Scott had one more full busy week of school with tests and homework before the holiday break. He also participated in his first, two Holiday choir concerts. His high school has so many talented students and groups that they had to hold a school concert over two evenings. Tom and I headed to Scott's concert Thursday night and enjoyed the first hour together listening to the choir perform. Then Tom took Scott home so he could finish homework and study for a few tests. I decided to stay on for the evening and especially enjoyed listening to the strings perform(all the violinists and cello players). You can tell most of the kids have been playing and performing for quite some time. On Friday evening, the kids were all back at it. This time I brought Mom Bozyk to the concert. They mostly played Christmas music and did a fantastic job-especially when they combined the entire choir and all the orchestras-strings and wind instruments as well as percussion singing Gloria. A fantastic job! And Scott finally got to wear his tux!
I was hoping Tom and Allison would have been able to join us, as well as Allison's boyfriend Tyler. However, Tom was stuck at the pet store waiting for Cookie to finish with her grooming. And Allison was giving Tyler a ride home from school and his family was waiting for him for dinner. So Gma and I enjoyed the concert on our own. Afterwards though we all got together for dinner out a local restaurant and then I dropped mom off back at her apt. We had both spent the afternoon at the hairdresser. I decided to get a shorter cut for our trip to Florida and mom needed a perm. On Saturday I was busy running errands and getting Scott to work. Tom decided to take Allison to a Hershey Bear hockey game along with friend John Dutton. I spent the time wrapping presents. We decided to have Christmas a week early since we were going to be traveling to Florida during the holidays. I decided I really liked having Christmas early. On that Sunday morning I had to go into work. I was making up an extra day since I would not be in on Christmas Eve. I worked in the morning and then headed over to Mom's retirement building to sing for the residents with the Girl Scout choir. We put on an hour long show and the resident's loved us! They said we provided the best entertainment of the season since we sang such a variety of songs, including a few Hannukah songs. After our show, I brought mom over to our house to enjoy an early Christmas dinner along with presents. When mom had opened all of her gifts, I dropped her back home after a quick drive through our neighborhood to enjoy the Christmas lights. Everyone seems to have gone all out putting up incredible light displays. I think because the weather was so nice this year. After dropping her off, I hurried home so our family could finish opening up our gifts. We all got really nice presents; more than we expected. And Thank you to Susan and John P. or providing our Christmas dinner! The ham and cheesecake were perfect! I even received an extra special treat when a secret santa dropped off a present on our front door Sunday night! An adorable snowman decoration. What a wonderful neighborhood we have!
Enjoying Christmas dinner!
Cookie does not seem to be enjoying the Spirit of Christmas in her new Santa outfit
Scott and I enjoyed a very busy Saturday together. In the morning we headed out with the Boy Scout troop to visit the NSA museum. We learned all about secret codes during war time, starting with George Washington all the way up to our recent battles during our private tour. I especially enjoyed doing some shopping for Tom in the NSA gift shop. Afterwards, Scott and I had lunch with one of his friends and fellow scout mom at a local restaurant. Then we were headed off to a cookie exchange party. But this was nothing like the ones I have been to before. This is a group of Scott's friends and their parents from his elementary catholic school. The mom hosting the party not only had all of us provide cookies to swap(I had been busy baking all week), but she had an incredible amount of food(chili, soup, appetizers) along with gift bags for each guest. Her generosity was overwhelming. I really enjoyed myself and chatting with the other parents. And Scott and his friends kept busy with video games. But we had to leave since Scott had to get to work and I had to get busy wrapping gifts.
I also enjoyed celebrating the holidays during the week with a Christmas party at work. We had a wonderful work luncheon and I even won an I-pad as a raffle prize! Our rehab team also went out to lunch for the holidays at a local crepe restaurant and exchanged Secret Santa gifts. Finally, I joined my mom after work for an Open House with lots of goodies and entertainment at my mom's retirement apt.
On Monday I was back to work and Scott was back at school. He was in class until Weds. At least he was done with his Boy Scout meetings. He had finished off the year with a wonderful last Christmas meeting. Allison was so happy to be done with her finals. She had a very successful 1st term in the school of business-lots of As and Bs. Scott still had a few quizzes to complete before Christmas. Even Tom, who was on vacation from work still had a lot of papers and assignments to complete before Christmas for his online Phd. program. Allison went out to see Star Wars with her boyfriend Tyler and roommate Jen. They all really liked the movie. It was still on our "to do" list. I was busy filling out Christmas cards each night, along with packing for our upcoming trip. I had to pack up a suitcase for my mom as well as my own and I had quite a bit of laundry to do. We managed to survive our short week and headed off to the train station for our trip to Florida on Christmas eve.
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