Homeschool Christmas party, the Nutcracker, Christmas tea, Gingerbread houses, and Christmas lights...oh MY!

We have joined a local homeschool community and they had a small party hosted by different families for the holiday season. Each family brought a favorite cookie and Christmas book to read aloud. I was really proud of Miss M for reading our book, The Nutcracker, out loud to the group. Speaking of new traditions, we continued our tradition of the mother/daughter date to the Nutcracker ballet in Denver. We went with our neighbors/good friends who moved here from Kentucky two years before us. It was so magical and special and both moms and daughters enjoyed a nice evening out to kick off the Christmas break. We also hosted a Christmas tea for the little girls in our neighborhood that play together and their moms. The girls exchanged books as a gift and had a lot of fun eating cookies and drinking tea with lots of sugar. We decorated gingerbread houses, looked at Christmas lights with neighbors, played at a park without a coat on...all before Christmas!