This year for New Year’s we had the Reagens and the Liesses over for a wild party. The Reagens spent the night.
New Year’s Eve 2020
Category: Holiday
Marshmallow Snowmen
Mimi & Papa
Christmas Day
Christmas day followed a fairly standard schedule in our house, with some modifications because of the pandemic. The day started at 7:30 when Lucia and Rose woke up. We told the older kids they could sleep until 9 so when Lucia and Rose woke up we watch the newest version of the grinch until 9.
Merry Christmas!
Christmas Eve
Christmas Cookies
Christmas Decorations
Traditionally we get out our Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. If we stay the night at the Connors’ we usually pick up our tree on the way home on Friday. This year I ran out on Friday morning to get not one, but two trees – one for the front and one for the back.
Thanksgiving 2020
For Thanksgiving this year we headed south to the Connors’. The weather was awesome and they had a beautiful setup in their driveway.
Beggars Night 2020
This evening we celebrated Beggars Night, which is basically Des Moines’ version of trick-or-treating – a night early. We do it this way every year. This year was a little different because of the pandemic, but it worked! There were still plenty of trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood and plenty of people passing out candy – social-distanced, of course. Most people had a treat station in their driveway and were either sitting behind it or just in their house.
Lucia and Rose were our only trick-or-treaters this year. Mari, Andrew, and Elliot stayed home to pass out candy and by the end of the evening we were joined by Mimi, Mary, Casey, Erin, and Nate to hang-out around the fire in our driveway.
Pumpkin Carving
We carved some pumpkins. We listened to halloween music. Lucia’s pumpkin was rotten so we had to run to the store to get another one. We roasted pumpkin seeds. Lucia’s new pumpkin had seeds inside that were sprouting.
