The 20 min Angel

Casey woke up this morning not happy in fact in an awful mood. Not a big deal except for the fact that today was her nativity play at school and with her class having been decimated by chicken pox (30 kids in the nursery school 12 with chicken pox) our little angel needed to participate. First thing out of her mouth was "I don't want to be an angel I want to be Cinderella." It didn't help that she has 4 Cinderellas dresses in close vicinity to her bed .( pretty much all her classmates got her a Cinderella dress or princess apparel). So her mood continued throughout breakfast only when she a few classmates did she stop being a grumposaurus. The play was super cute- kids stood there shell shocked I think one girl said a line and the rest just stared into the audience. Casey did participate in the Christmas carols-(sidenote she actually sang the British ones like "Christmas pudding" better than the American ones." Other random notes- I was stopped by at least 6 or 7 parents who were so touched we gave them a Christmas photo card. No one here does the picture cards so they thought it was such a novelty. I think they found it deeply personal that we shared a photo with them (don't want to break their hearts that 120 other families have the same card:) CJ's class has their Christmas dinner- some 3 course extravaganza- say a little prayer that our little boy remembers to use his fork instead of his spoon:) Lastly as a constant reminder to us parents its sometimes the little things that matter most. Casey liked her vanity set but a classmate gave her a tiny jewelry box with a spinning ballerina and she has been playing with that non stop.