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    Christmas Countdown: Activities!

    I don’t mean to be one of those annoying Pinterest-y mothers talking about the perfect Christmas activities, but we are having a lot of fun with our countdown calendar. 

    The boys especially love the activities related to food, such as drinking eggnog, making gingerbread houses, and making hot chocolate. They are excited when we get home from school and select an activity.

    Here’s our full list of things we choose from:

    • Drink eggnog
    • Drink hot chocolate
    • Visit the Zilker Tree
    • Visit 37th Street lights
    • Visit Christmas house at 1912 Crystal Shores 
    • Go ice-skating 
    • Attend the Cherrywood Art Festival
    • Make bagged lunches and deliver them to homeless people on the street
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    Dismantling Racism: Watch 13th!

    The anti-bias, anti-racist committee at our school hosted a showing of the film, 13th. It’s an in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality. 
    I highly recommend it! Very difficult to watch, but incredibly important. 
    Also, this post about white supremacy culture is a lot to take in. I’m still processing it (and will be for a while). 

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    It Happened Again: 5-Minute Fix

    Okay. This time it took more than five minutes, but the amount of time it took to fix (one trip to IKEA + ~10 minute of potting + ~10 minutes of arranging) pales in comparison to the amount of time I have spent feeling stressed about the entryway of our home. 
    I wish I weren’t someone who cared so much about the aesthetics of my surroundings, but I do. It’s as if my mind is a permeable membrane that is absorbing the chaos (or the beauty) of whatever is around me. 
    I just wish I were motivated to fix the areas that bug me instead of letting them stress me out for
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