Preschool Highjinks

Tonight was the Preschool Christmas Program at the Preschool I help out at.

My job is to help a set of triplets with their everyday tasks at the preschool.  They are a great set of girls, and so are all the other boys and girls in the class.

For weeks we've been practicing Christmas songs, and little dittys, and even Bible verses in anticipation of tonight.

This past week we practiced three times in the sanctuary in front of the microphones, so the kids were ready.

We thought we were good.

I arrived tonight 15 minutes before the kids did, to help get things ready.

Then everyone came. 

Things were looking good.  We brought the older kids (pre-K age) down to the circle where we have "circle time" everyday.

We went over some songs ONE MORE TIME, and then got them lined up in the order that we thought would cause the least hassle, or fights, or stop the talking problems between best friends. 

I turned around to lead them upstairs, (the other teacher was at the end of the line...) and noticed the first boy in line had the start of a bloody nose.  I quickly wiped it up, only to hear the other teacher helping a boy who was THROWING UP at the end of the line.  We were rushing around to find a trash can, and she had his mouth covered with kleenex, and I knew I needed to get the other kids UPSTAIRS, and FAST.

We headed upstairs, everyone was following the person in front of them.  All we had to do was enter the sanctuary, and go to the front, and turn to the left and sit down on the front pew.  THAT'S ALL WE HAD TO DO.

I walked with the first boy in the line to the end of the pew, and turned around one last time, only to see the whole line disassembling themselves.  They had moved to where their friends were, and NO ONE was in the same place as when they were downstairs.  I heard some tinkling laughter from some parents, but what was I to do, I had only turned around for a second.  I didn't get them back in the right order, but I got them in some kind of order, and we all sat down on the pew. 

Once it was our turn on the stage, they handled things pretty well.  Some did all the singing and the motions, some just looked shell shocked.

After that there was cookies and drinks. 

Whew.  What a night.  I can honestly say I'm SO GLAD my kids are not pre-K age anymore. 

They are good kids that I help at the Preschool, but quite a handfull!

To settle myself after the festivities, I came home and made some more things for my ETSY shop. 

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Some flower pins/hair clips...

 and some more Christmas items.

Hope your Sunday afternoon was less chaotic than mine!

Tis the Season...yada yada yada

This week has not put me much into the Christmas spirit I'm afraid to say. It's been too busy. I've been buying and making gifts and having practices, and shuttling people here and there, and I'm tired. I'm more than ready for Christmas break, and some sleepin' in.


However, there was a bright spot in my week. The kid's Christmas concert at school was this week. Last year at this time, the Christmas concert was all about a Christmas Spelling Bee, and we got to sing Hymns, and talk about Christ. Since our recent episode with a certain family, and the lawsuit that resulted from that about our Bible class, we no longer are able to do a Christian Christmas concert at school. It saddens me a great deal.


Instead, we had a concert this week about Santa Claus, and his shopping network.


To ease the burden for Santa, a shopping network was created where kids could "call in" and give their requests, and the elves would build it for them, and ship it out!

(our little amish neighbor, Kaylene, was an elf!!!!)


Santa was given the royal treatment by plenty of beauticians, along with the approval of Mrs. Claus, for his TV appearance on the Santa Shopping Network.


Grace wasn't pleased to be a part of the concert. She told me it was not her favorite one...and I think she's at that age where everything just seems to be dumb! So, most of my pictures of her, include her NOT smiling.

Both kids had a speaking part this year. Evan was Vixen the reindeer. He got to talk about how to call in and pick the right number and color selection to get your order placed.


One of his best friends was a reindeer with him, so it made it more exciting for him.

Grace got to make a cat noise into the mic when they were introducing a cat as one of the featured items you could wish for.

Then of course at the end, I needed to take a shot of my kiddos. They weren't really happy about this. They never are for some reason.

It turned out to be a good concert. They did a great job, and there were funny parts throughout the concert.

Maybe this next week, with NOTHING on my calendar will put me right back into the spirit and joy of the season.

Hope your week is joyful!