❄ What is your favorite family tradition? ❄

With the holidays right around the corner I decided to do a sort of "holiday themed" question. My prompt is what is your favorite family tradition?

For me this would have to be everything we do on Christmas day. The day always starts with me being woken up by my loud (and excited) brothers wanting to open their gifts. I walk into the den in my Christmas PJ's and all of our gifts are sitting out on the chairs. Everyone has their own section so I walk over to mine and we open up our presents and possibly get a little too excited.. (is that possible?). We snatch our stockings off the mantle and reach into them to see what we got. Before we know it the entire family is sitting down at the table having Christmas breakfast.
"Katie! Pass the breakfast casserole!"
"Shh Jack its early I'm tired!"
We enjoy out french toast casserole and biscuits and then proceed to fool around with out presents even more. Once we have calmed down a bit we usually sit and watch Christmas movies or take a little family time break. Next, we head over to my grandmothers house, open our gifts from her, and have Christmas dinner. Just thinking about all of this is making me so happy. I love the feeling of walking out of her house into the crisp air. When we drive home suddenly lights and decorations on all the houses start to blur and I find my favorite day of the year over.
I literally cant wait for Christmas this year.




Reading times:
LOTF- 1 hour 20
Literary Analysis work (outside of class) :  35 mins
Writing Center: 20 mins

Thanksgiving Break

I am so excited for Thanksgiving Break! It seems like this year so far has been a lot of work and no breaks, so Im excited to have a week off. I really like sitting down at the table and catching up with my family. We make some really good treats for Thanksgiving. My favorite is turkey with cranberry sauce. Also, I think my mom may be bringing me black friday shopping this year so I'm really excited! On Friday we will also get our Christmas tree and decorate the house. We play christmas music and get out whole house decked out! Its really fun! That is basically my favorite thing to do ever (no joke). On Saturday this year, though, we are having a wedding dinner for my aunt who recently got married, so Im excited for that. Anyways, Im just really excited to finally get a break and have fun with my friends and family!

Beauty and the Beast

The past 2-ish weeks I have been helping with the lower school play "Beauty and the Beast". Last night was the closing night and I'm actually so sad that its over. I was on headset on stage right (which is really fun I love headset). I also helped with random stuff like mics, costumes, and basically whatever I was needed to help with. Anyways, the first show night was wednesday. Things went pretty rough over on stage right. I repeatedly forgot to open/ close the castle door and take on/ off the trees. I also forgot to put the table on for Beauty and the Beast (the song). It wasn't really that big of a deal for anyone else but me, so on Thursday I was sure I was going to get everything right, and I did! Everything came in and out on time, all the kids did an amazing job! It was great. Friday, though, was even better. Everything was very smooth and nothing was forgotten at all! At the end of the show on Friday night Kate, Julia, Emily, and I had an encore and we went up on stage and performed a 5 man show of B&theB in about 3 minutes which included some fantastic mashups. It was awesome. Oh! Ginny and Jordan came back to help us and it was awesome I love them. The lower schoolers were all so sweet and I just loved helping! I will definitely help again next year!

Deserted Island Simulation

I had a ton of fun doing the deserted island simulation in class yesterday. I came up with 2 plans,  a very flawed plan, and an actual plan. Okay so for the flawed plan Bria, Chanler, Kate, Alex, and I are going to be the supreme rulers and we are going to supply wifi and computers and koolaid packets for ourselves and people who follow us. Alex is going to make us all sushi. We are going to start a factory and make sneeds and the color of your sneed determines your social class and we will sacrifice people to get food. Okay onto the real plan. The class will split into groups and one group will be in charge of taking care of the 1st graders and keeping them safe, another group will be in charge of making an obvious sign that we are there so if people come to rescue us they can find us, Dell will be in charge of finding food and boiling water (which eventually we will run out of food so thats not good), and some people will be in charge of shelter. I think that the problem is 1st of all we will eventually run out of food because theres all of us and a ton of 1st graders. The other problem is that if we dont get found i think everything will eventually just fall apart and we will all fight and get mad and hate each other because of  being stuck on a deserted island for so long. I think that the splitting into groups would work so we werent all panicked all at once. Anyways, I just hope we dont get stuck on a deserted island.

Reading times:

Working on my essay: 2 hours
Reading and annotating LOTF: 20 mins- pages 7-31
Total time: 2h20m

Reading Log

Paper Town by John Green - Pages 1-12- 10 mins
Peermark- 40 mins
Literary Analysis: 1 hr 30 mins

Total time: 2 hours and 20 minutes