Sharing thanks for dancing angels!

Love these Patriotic Nutcrackers

I love getting out my Nutcrackers as part of my home holiday decorating. I had a very wonderful weekend filled with music. Every year the South Shore Symphony performs the Nutcracker with Leggs Ltd. Dance featuring professional dancers! I love the Nutcracker music and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to play it. I love sitting next to the harp and hearing the introduction to the Waltz of the Flowers!  Here are my thanks for today.
  1. Sharing thanks for seeing angels dancing at the beginning of Act II of the Nutcracker. Thankful for talented beaming kids whose radiating smiles lit up the auditorium. 
  2. Thanks to my parents and my husband, who came out to see the Nutcracker on Saturday night. My parents treated us to dinner at Greek Town. The food and company was wonderful. Hats off to my mom who has been sharpening her Scrabble skills with an App on her Ipod. She creamed us playing scrabble afterwards.
  3. Thankful to take to my older daughter Becky and be able to wish her good luck on her finals and projects. 
  4. Thanks to the staff at Clarke High School for all there help in getting my daughter Liz's college applications out. Thanks to her guidance counselor and her English teacher for writing a recommendation for her.
I want to wish all my friends and family who are also celebrating Hanukkah this week. Believe in miracles and the importance of shining light in this world. I hope you will share a holiday tradition that you are thankful for!

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