Reflection time!! Goodbye SBC!!

Ok, I honestly thought this was going to be much harder. How come nobody told me that having a blog was so awesome? This challenge was a fun task that I hope we can do again in the future. Now, I can continue with my blog for years to come! This challenge was so amazing because I am going to remember what we learned about the blogs forever! One thing in particular that I learned was all the blogging vocabulary. I never would have guessed that there was so much!

 

If I had to choose a favorite post, I would pick either the week where we had free choice week, (week 4), or the Holidays and Festivities week (week 7). I liked these weeks because I got to write freely, and I got to be myself. Writing is so enjoyable to me, but I can’t explain why I like it because most of the time I don’t like writing. But for some reason, my blog has encouraged me to take on trying to write, and now I love it. Even though the week 4 post I did wasn’t writing, it was still me expressing myself in a way that I wanted to.  During that week I made a halloween video in the hallways of my school. If you haven’t seen it, go check it out! In total I have written 8 posts so far, not including this one. I will continue to post in the future as well!

 

Don’t worry, I’m not getting rid of my blog. I will still update you with weekly posts, but they won’t be the wonderful SBC challenges. No need to freak out, I’m not going away forever! I would like to thank the SBC for providing us with this fun and encouraging challenge!! In the future I have plans to include more excerpts from my story The forgotten Throne, excerpts from my new story called Dark Chocolate, poems, and visuals like videos and pictures!

 

This reflection was really short, but it really got out everything I needed to say about these past 8 weeks. I loved this challenge! I hope everyone enjoyed my weekly posts and I will encourage you to comment down below what else you would like to see on my blog. Make sure to go and check out my peers blogs, you can access them through the sidebar of my blog!! Happy holidays to everyone out there who is reading, I’m CC dePascale, signing off for the last time, for the SBC.

Happy Holidays!

Seasons greetings! Welcome back to Paint Wars. Today, I only have a little bit to talk about before we jump right into things. This week is holidays and festivities. I picked to do a poem  because as you probably know by now, writing is one of my passions. I love poems and I picked a Christmas/wintertime poem. Writing poems is one of my favorite things to do because poems are so free and you can write a poem about anything you want. My favorite holiday is Christmas because we get to spend time with our families and we get to give and recieve gifts. Feel free to comment about your favorite time of year when you’ve finished reading my poem.  Mine is winter. I love the snow!! Also, make sure to click on the hyperlink to fill out the form I created (It’s a picture). Enjoy the poem!!!

 

We sit around the fire

Crackle, pop.

Dark bronze chocolate sits in front of me,

Little chalky balls of happiness float in the milky substance.

 

Flames crack and the TV is busy projecting The Polar Express.

The ground outside is frosted with pearly white snow

A Christmas tree sits in the corner, with hundreds of bulbs

Made by the kids over the years.

 

The house is warm and cozy

My silky pajama pants braising against my legs

Keeping me warm

 in the cold Virginia weather.

 

Christmas lights twinkle outside my bedroom window

Red, white, green

Why even some of them are pink.

The street is lit up with little balls of flair.

 

Snow falls gently to the ground

A call comes in, we have no school tomorrow. 

No books and binders galore

No waiting for hours on end for the bell to ring

 

Just a cozy home with a working fireplace

And a working TV and heater

And love

All around

 

Pleasant music is playing in the background

My dad’s entire family is here

Showing off, laughing

The cousins are checking out the house that they never get to see

 

My dad plays a slow song on the piano

And my mom opens a bottle of wine

My grandparents tell me and my cousins how big we have gotten

You know, the usual.

 

Then dinner is served.

Ham, bread, pasta, with a finishing touch of pie.

Apple, shoo-fly, and pumpkin.

Minced meat for the grandparents.

 

We wander into the family room

To put out the milk and cookies

In hopes that Santa will come tonight.

 

We run upstairs to go to sleep.

There is almost no patience left in me.

What will I get?

Will others like the gifts I gave them?

 

Christmas morning we sit in front of the fire 

In our pajamas with our stockings and our gifts.

We are ready to open the gifts!

The siblings complain about who gets to go open something first.

 

The oven beeps in the kitchen.

The french toast casserole is ready.

We sprinkle powdered sugar over our french toast

And we run to the airport to pick up the second load of grandparents.

 

This is a normal Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at my house.

Snow, happiness, fighting. 

What are holidays like at your  house?

 

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