Look at me, blogging two days in a row! The semester must be winding down. 🙂
To be fair, this post is pretty much just a photo dump. We’ve been racking up a ton of holiday photos, lately, and I want to share some before it gets out of hand.
So, here are photos from two special nights over the past couple of weeks: the night we put up our Christmas tree and last night, which was the first night of Hanukkah. This is a multicultural post, y’all, cause we’re a multicultural family like that.
Let’s start with the tree-trimming, which is always one of my favorite nights of the whole year. Sona and I actually went to get our tree earlier in that week. We just figured it’d be easier to choose it, haul it home, and put it in the stand without Finn at our feet. We were right.
But we made sure he was around for tree-trimming, even if he wasn’t that interested. And we made sure to have lots of snacks, of course.
Sona got start on the lights at the top.
And Finn tried to blow out all the candles we had lit.
I swear I helped with the lights–between photos. 🙂
As we’ve done for the past 10+ years, we ordered pizza (just like Kevin McCallister).
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Mischievous little elf.
For the first time, I did ribbon on our main tree instead of garland.
Finn played with his toys while we decorated.
Let’s not talk about how long it took to get our very-heavy star up there.
The end result:
Fast forward a couple of weeks. Last night was the first night of Hanukkah, and I wanted Finn to participate in lighting the candles.
He was into it.
But mostly, he was into the chocolates he got at the end.
“Want some, Momma?”
Have I mentioned that I love this time of year?