Back to the Grind

I was surprised at how much the Nutcracker took out of all of us.  I had hoped to only eliminate school, extracurricular activities, housework, blogging and cooking during performance week, but we had to almost completely abandon all of our Advent activities as well.  We've taken the last two days to recover and I've been letting the kids sleep in, but now we are back to work.  We have alot of catching up to do on our service project and the Jesse Tree.  Since we have only 2 days of school left this week and then our two week Christmas break, we are doing bare bones school work, just to make sure we don't fall too far behind.