December Doings (So Far)

Jonah's school (St. Clement Episcopal School) celebrated the Feast of St. Clement last week. St. Clement apparently lived during Roman times, so the kids dressed up in togas and ate a lunch of pita, hummus, clementines, grapes, and anachronistic chicken nuggets while sitting on the floor! It was very cute!

Jonah saw Santa this past Sunday at the Freeman House in Vienna. He'd seen Santa last year at school, but we'd never taken him to a mall or anything to see him. Having seen Santa as a kid myself at a busy, crowded, noisy mall, I really prefer the set-up they had at the Freeman House. Santa was seated in a room where only one family at a time was permitted to enter (the next family was allowed to peek in from the doorway so the children could watch the children ahead of them interact with the jolly old elf, and I thought that was nice - it allowed the kids to watch and so not be as scared as they might otherwise have been). Each child had some private time with Santa and could just chit-chat with him rather than having to rush through with a wish list. It was really nice, and by the end of our turn, Jonah was chatting happily with Santa!