We opened our Savannah Christmas gifts

Polar Express Day, 4th grade

 

Power outage--only 2 hours this time, not 216

Dorothy and her friend played a duet at their piano Christmas party today

The Sunday Funny

I'd give myself grade of C for housekeeping, but I must score off-the-charts in supplying our house with paper products for the last decade.  After a playdate recently, Dorothy came home wide-eyed and whispered, "Sallie needed some Kleenex but they were out, so she used toilet paper!"

New Dress Sass

The elf is back

Holidays ahead

At the Santa Shop

Dorothy and Brian sang in the same Christmas concert

Elf on an elf on an elf on the shelf

Dorothy's tree of Sarah's Mary's Angels

Dorothy and the Bee

She made it to round 13 in the 4th & 5th-grade spelling bee!

Choir practice

Double field trip day! Hospital with Girl Scouts and art museum with class

 

First Science Fair

Bass Pro Shop 2014-2024

Santa 2024

 

Willa's 10th birthday was a heated pool party

Scenes from the weekend

The Thankful List 2024

 Dorothy's Thankful List, November 2024:

• Mama, because she loves me
• Daddy, because he makes me laugh
• My friend Livia
• My friend Willa
• My friend Iona
• My friend Alice
• Leah and Leah
• Girls' Nights
• My neighborhood friends
• My school friends
• My teachers
• Bubbles
• My miscellaneous friends
• Hammy
• School
• Books!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Legos
• Myself
• My classmates and the school nurse
• Marshpoint Elementary
• My life
• The library
• Campfires
• Harry Potter
• Holidays
• Gram & Big Daddy & Grandma & Grandpa
• The Thank You List

Unconstrained by precedent

Dear Santa

More choir

Winterish Night

Visiting with friends who are camping at Skidaway

Dinner conversation

Dorothy at choir!

 

The Sunday Funny

I needed a block of time to book our flights for the holidays in Chicago.  I asked Dorothy to give me some time to do work at the computer for Christmas, so would she please do her homework and not interrupt me.  "Oh!" she said excitedly, "is it something I can't know about?"

Dorothy had her 10-year-old check-up, and the doctor is moving to a new building next month. So, Dorothy took pictures of the illustrated walls we've been looking at for a decade.

Book Week dress-up day (v.2)

Class Spelling Bee Winner! (And Leah, the runner-up)

 

Quick Book Week Costume: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

We loved the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the Jepson

Dorothy spent all weekend trying to write an essay for a contest in neat handwriting