The cruellest month

It ain’t April. It’s December. Here’s what we have to do in December, besides the usual work and school and ballet and piano lessons:

• Seventh-grade band/chorus concert
• High school orchestra concert
• Dance performance in Hudson
• Many Nutcracker rehearsals, two Nutcracker shows
• Various Girl Scout events
• Two birthday parties, including a sleepover
• First Night performance
• A holiday pops concert
• Christmas, twice, because it falls on Thursday this year and the extended family wants to push it off to the weekend.
• Shopping, which is nearly entirely on-line.
• Killing mice that have come in to get warm (but that’s just a bonus).