So here it is, Super Bowl Sunday and I am finally sitting down to blog about December and Christmas.  I could care less about the game and have never actually seen a super bowl in my life, but my kids have decided it’s cool to watch it.  So we made popcorn and cookies and they are all in the basement pretending they know what’s going on and…bonding.  While I blog.

This school year has been a year of firsts for Cade (and for me).  He has found a great group of friends, boys and girls, and they are always doing stuff together.  They read the Book of Mormon together in 24 hours, they go the temple together and hang out together whenever they can.  Oh, and text each other constantly.  I am now beginning to see why parents want their kids to have a license.  I’m always driving him somewhere!  Cade really wanted to have a kick off to Christmas party so on December 1st we had all his friends over.  He planned it all; food, white elephant gift exchange and Elf the movie.  It was pretty weird, I gotta say, having 15 loud teenagers in my house.  That was a first for us.  But it was fun to see him with his friends and to know he is fitting in and happy.  And according to Cade’s friends, his mom is “so great” and has “awesome hair”.  So that’s good.  Always nice to have the approval of one’s child’s friends.

Along with being super social this year, Cade has joined wrestling.  He has really enjoyed wrestling, however I have not. I just can’t watch my child being twisted, headlocked and bent in all kinds of wrong directions and then thrown to the mat from off someone’s shoulders.  It’s too painful for me to watch.  Soccer, baseball, flag football I can do.  I will leave the contact sports to their dad to watch.  Cade is really growing me up as a mom.  All these firsts.  Another first this year: attending a sporting event to watch your son, sitting by girls who have also come to watch said son.  I used to be that girl, going to sporting events of the boys I liked.  I can’t possibly be this old.

Also back in early December we got some amazing snow.  It’s the only good snow storm we’ve had this winter.  We usually get dry powdery snow that is wonderful for skiing but terrible for snowmen.  Not this time.  The kids made the biggest snowmen EVER!