Finally, our family Christmas day arrived! We declined all plans and focused on just being home and hanging out. We started by opening stockings, of course. JT noticed that he got soap and socks… and joked that he was in the transition year (the morning wouldn’t be complete without a Dude Perfect reference). Then HaleyContinue reading “December 26”
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December 25
We started December 25 off slowly, since it wasn’t our “actual” Christmas at home. I still made our favorite orange scones, berry parfaits, and bacon for breakfast. After a late breakfast, the kids and I sat down to read new books and… eat more scones. Ha. Around 11, some of our family got together toContinue reading “December 25”
December 24
The night before Christmas Eve, we realized we were hungry for Christmas cookies. Grandma Cole to the rescue! She whipped up a batch for us to decorate together. On Christmas Eve, the kids and I did some dessert preparation. (I also made a cheesecake with little Santa hat strawberries for Grandpa Keene’s birthday the weekContinue reading “December 24”
Christmas Goodies
The kids and I have a great time making Christmas treats to distribute to our neighbors and this year I felt like maybe people wouldn’t want homemade treats delivered to their door. But the kids decided it was up to us to be kind and deliver them, and up to the recipients to decide ifContinue reading “Christmas Goodies”
O Christmas Tree
We’ve been celebrating “The Year of Different” by embracing change and doing things differently lately, and finding lots of joy in new experiences and positive solutions. One of the things we decided to do differently was to get a real Christmas tree. Jim and I have been married for 20 Christmas seasons, and we haveContinue reading “O Christmas Tree”
Gingerbread Houses
I bought some gingerbread houses for a work virtual event, and the kids wanted some too. Sometimes we decorate them, sometimes we make them, sometimes we don’t do it at all. This year we grabbed the Costco kits and a weekend evening to complete them – and they turned out like magazine ads, I think!
Christmas 2019
Christmas Eve included the same routine we always have: dinner at home, church, and new pajamas. Then we watched the “new” Pixar version of the Grinch while we ate our usual homemade apple pie. Haley and JT look forward to new pajamas every year. I teased them that they were likely getting too old, andContinue reading “Christmas 2019”
Christmas Cookies
For the last several years, we’ve been invited to Grandma Cole’s house to decorate Christmas cookies as part of our December activity list. The kids look forward to this very much – and so do the adults. 🙂 This year, Grandma prepped by baking the cookies ahead of time so we could walk in andContinue reading “Christmas Cookies”
Candy Canes
We invited the Drew kids (three of them, at least) over to make candy canes with us last weekend. We read the recipe, talked about the steps, and completed them together. Then we started grabbing slightly cooled gooey boiled sugar and rubbing it in our butter-coated hands! Sometimes it was very hot. In the end,Continue reading “Candy Canes”
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Our family left after the holidays and JT wanted to get moving on the Christmas tree, so he offered to set it up. We had two hours before we needed to leave for basketball, and he was a man on a mission. The kids put up trees while I did the rest of the house,Continue reading “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”
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