Whew!  We're done with the semester.  I made Ty a deal, that if he could get any outstanding assignments completed (and done well) by Tuesday night, that Christmas vacation would officially begin after Co Op was done yesterday afternoon.  He worked his little behind off, but he did it!  We go through the summer, so that we can take December off.  We're done until January 6th!

And d'ya know what the first thing he wanted to do this morning was?  Math!  We found the M&M Math book that we had gotten months ago while looking through a bookshelf earlier this week...and it was the first thing on his mind this morning.  After that, he played on the computer for a while, and then we got out the Christmas tree.  He put it up all by himself this year!  He was so proud of himself...and he knew that Daddy wasn't looking forward to it, so he was really happy to have it done before Dad came home from work.  We had a lot of fun decorating it!

Now, it's time to bake cookies, and paint/sew/cook presents, and learn Christmas songs...and take a well-deserved rest.  I'm looking forward to it!  And to getting back into the swing of things in January - we've got some fun things planned!