…It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
~Winston Churchill

So my dear husband says that I don’t blog enough about the everyday life. I have to agree, so I’m going to attempt to do so. I found a sale on photo batteries, so I can use our camera again and start photo documenting. By the way, the photo is of my kitty, Logan, when he was a little kitten. It’s an example of my desire to use my own pics eventually.

Anyhow, the end of the beginning. Right.

I have finally, almost, reached the end of the concert season! I still have a school assembly concert for my choir kids on Tuesday, but that will be a cakewalk in comparison with the rest of it. I have, however, reached the end of my teaching schedule! Break time!!! I have four weeks off for the schools and some of the private lessons and two weeks for the other private lessons. Somewhere in that time we’ll be heading down to SoCal for a week with my family. Included in that trip is a day at Disneyland! We’re both so excited to go back to Disneyland. My mom, sister and grandmother will be with us, so it should be a lot of fun. We actually have lucked into a deal on parkhopper passes, so our three family companions will be able to experience California Adventure for the first time. Sure, it’s no Disneyland, but it is a lot of fun.

I feel like now that I’m on break I get to be domestic again. I miss making intricate gourmet meals and having the freedom to do most of the housework during the waking hours. I begin Monday with Christmas cookies! I have a whole day to create little morsels of sweet goodness. I may even surprise Eric with another batch of vegan sugar cookies. For those of you wondering what makes them vegan, just think soy butter. Honestly, I can’t tell the difference, but they make me feel less guilty for eating them. This year I even have stuff to make icing to decorate them. I have to admit they are cuter when their shapes are adorned with red/white/green detail. I think I just might take pics of the journey from ingredients to treatsies. That is if I get the photo batteries. Our camera sucks the life out of the poor regular batteries. All we have to do is put them in the camera and turn it on, and the battery life is blinking low. I’ll just have to see if I can get something that lasts.

Well, I think my pepsi from dinner (tonight was pizza night–we spent the day celebrating the start of break for me) has finally worn off enough for me to sleep. We’ll call it a night.