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As a continuing tribute to holiday music, I am including this amazing tune that comes from an incredible classic "The Year Without A Santa Claus"
On the heels of the previous classics"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Santa Claus is Coming To Town"

The wonderful stop action animators at Rankin Bass came up with a very interesting story of Mother Nature's kids fighting over where there would be snow during the holidays.
This is by far, my younger sisters choice for Christmas classic.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

I posted last year, the most beautiful Christmas song.

Tribute to Christmas Music

Let It Snow

We have had two days of snow and ice. Mimi has had two days off of school.

On Sunday night we went out and had a major snow fight(with Zelda).

Deck the Halls Pt 2

We ended up with the stoutest tree in all North Carolina.

We also got the traditional teeny tree that has more ornaments than the big tree.
Mimi has several nativity scenes, and she reenacts, Jesus house.

Deck the Halls Pt 1

The Sipes family forged out onto Woodward Ave, to pick out our tree. We have gone to the same tree lot for ages and as Terry and I get older, we expedite the process.

We gathered up, leashed baby Zelda and ventured out into the tree lot.

I think it took maybe fifteen minutes to pick out our tree.

Aunt Zanne came with us to offer her expert opinion.

Baby It's Cold Outside

In true fashion of my children, I have two viewpoints dealing with the same subject..

Paulina has her Christmas dreams of schools end, eiderdown and cheese driven foods.

Mimi loves snow.
Tonight, Mimi requested a respite from my forced paper snowflake cutting to loll about in our pure driven Michigan snow.
Mimi gathered a ziploc of snow and I think she tried to make a snow angel in the driveway.

When Mimi and Jiejie spoke on the phone, Mimi assured her that the snow was fine, being kept in a cardboard box in our bed with a fan running to keep it cold.
She has since moved it to the freezer.

The reunited

This teeny clip is of Mimi meeting JieJie at the airport.

JieJie is usually greeted with a pile of beautiful handmade gifts and the occasional whoopie cushion is strategically placed on the passenger seat.

Happy Hanukkah

Last week, Mimi went to Annabel"s house to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah.

In true Bean family tradition, Mimi was stuffed with glorious food and showered with gifts.

The most treasured of gifts being the boy that is Justin Bieber.

We now have reenactments of all sort of Justin Bieber moments, including walking.