Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!  🦃

Our theme for what some people term "Christmas School" is The Nutcracker.  My husband and I spent many Christmas seasons rehearsing and performing in The Nutcracker ballet, so, I was a bit surprised when I realized for all the themes we have covered through the years, we have never once chosen The Nutcracker as our Christmas school theme.  We have a lot of fun activities lined up and lots of great books, I CANNOT wait!  But I also wanted to read a re-telling in my personal time, and so I chose Winterdream by Chantal Gadoury.  

I was initially a bit disappointed because I could not find this book in print or on kindle, so I had to listen to it through audible (which means the only time I have to do this is at night, it is not as easy to tuck reading time throughout the day when you only have audio as an option).  BUT - the narrator did a FANTASTIC job!  I liked the backstory, the different ways that Chantal Gadoury chose to unfold the story,  yet I was thankful that she chose to keep many of the common points that most Nutcracker stories contain.

I cannot believe that we only have one month of the year left.  The days have been REALLY long this year, but the weeks and months have sped by.  

(Well except for the summer: the HOTTEST days tend to crawl  by and leave such a horrible memory that it feels like that is the LONGEST part of our year.  I DO NOT like the summer.)

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!