Festival of Lights – Arizona

Today was Sofia’s first performance as a dancer!  They performed the fight scene from the Nutcracker and then also her Musical Theatre class performed their Whoville/Grinch routine.  It started to rain and we thought the Whoville performance was going to be cancelled, but the rain stopped just before they went on!   I was so proud of her.  She did really well (I just wish you could see her better on the video).

              

Black Friday Shopping

I hate black Friday shopping.  I can not believe I did it!  Yesterday I spent the day at a friend’s house and then a holiday party with her and her family after that.  We decided somewhere along the way, we would head out at midnight since Toys R Us and the mall were open.  WOW.  It was crazy (as you can see by the line below at Toys R Us).  At the ball is was half rave half mall!  Totally insane.  I got home about 7:30 this morning, put tv on for Sofia and tried to nap for a while.  Got up at 11 made lunch then Sofia and I both took a nap form noon-3:55 ---- 5 minutes before she had to be at Dance!!!!  YIKES!

My head hurts, I feel kinda sick.  It feels like I went out on a wild party binge last night.  Tomorrow will be a crazy day too, with the Festival of Lights.  I need a nap……

 

Watch my turkey trot

Thank goodness the Turkey Trot was before that huge feast we had (see my previous post) for lunch!

 

You call this a Thanksgiving Feast?

Every day I am amazed at how things have changed or at least how they are different here in Arizona.  Yesterday was Sofia’s Thanksgiving presentation followed by a Thanksgiving “feast”.  I beg to differ (see evidence below).

• First of all, what would be wrong with a good ole black construction paper Pilgrim hat? (side note:  Sofia clearly dressed the cutest and most Fall like)

     

• Second – in what world is this a Thanksgiving feast?  The Feast consisted of:  one roll, one slice of cold deli turkey, one slice of deli cheese, a spoon of disgusting bananas, grapes and apples mixed together and a nice shade of brown goo all over them.  Later there was also a sliver of pumpkin pie.

• Oh and this was the only lunch the children got that day.  Oh and parents were not offered lunch.

Now here is the only real reason I complain:  Sofia and I rent (lord knows we could not afford to own here) in the highest income of all of this area of town.  In her class of 22 children, only 3 go to afterschool, because they have a stay-at-home parent that picks them up.  I am certain we could have had a proper Thanksgiving feast.  The strangest thing of all is that most people seemed fine with it.  Is it because I’m from the South and we are just better at these kinds of things?  Oh and of course the only thing Sofia ate was the slice of turkey. 

I can’t wait to see what they do for Christmas. Oh wait, there is no Christmas in schools anymore.  Oh and for that matter, Thanksgiving feast was actually Fall Feast.

I’m over all this political correctness.