We spent the evening at Lisa’s annual countdown to 6:00 party, and now Carrie is working really hard to stay awake until midnight to see the ball drop for the first time. We’ll see whether that was a good idea or not tomorrow morning…
Carrie, Uncle Michael and I decorated a whole gingerbread village yesterday. It’s a *lot* more work putting together and decorating five tiny houses than one big one! Good thing Carrie has teeny-tiny fingers, because Michael and I couldn’t manage the teeny-tiny candies they included in the kit – they were practically sprinkles. I think “candy” [...]
The morning didn’t quite go the way we wanted – I think this is the first Christmas in my whole entire life that I didn’t get to mass – but we had a mostly good day. The girls found out today that… …we’re going to Disney World!
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring…except for Mommy clicking the mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, not actually sleeping, but calling for “Mommmmmmy” instead… [...]
Last night I piped some simple decorations on pre-baked (yes, I cheated) gingerbread men for the bus drivers: And today Carrie and I baked a million (OK, only 16 dozen or so) G.G. cookies. She even stayed up really late to help us decorate them all tonight. This is the first time in years that [...]
All the K/1 classes met in the school cafeteria tonight to construct these gingerbread houses out of empty milk cartons, graham crackers, frosting and candies. A cute, fun project!
I signed up to bring a treat for the class holiday party, but the treat I decided on became an activity as well – decorating gingerbread men! So I dropped Anna off at Nikki’s house and headed to the school for the holiday party. What fun! Did you know that the echo line in Rudolph [...]
We went to church this morning, and then to the pancake breakfast with Santa after. This Santa was slightly less intimidating to Anna, although that might have been because this time I sat down with her. Carrie was so excited to get to see Santa again that she sat on his lap twice – once [...]
I took the girls to see Santa today. Luckily, Denis met us at the mall after work and we all went together. Yep, that was pretty lucky. Because while Carrie was more than happy to climb right up on that red velvet-covered knee: Anna wanted absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Claus. That’s right. Not [...]
I rearranged the living room a smidge so we could put the tree up this evening. I do love going through the ornaments we’ve collected throughout the years, and Carrie loves to hang things on the highest branches she can reach while Daddy holds her up. I remember our first tree – senior year of [...]