How the heck am I supposed to get into the holiday spirit with weather like this?
Holidays
Dear Santa
We do not shop on Black Friday. There is something very off putting about the over the top consumption perpetuated by Black Friday that exemplifies some of the deep-rooted ways that big companies manipulate us to think we need things we don’t.
On a related note-the kids make their Christmas lists today.
The kids want pretty simple things and only a few things which makes me happy. I like that they only want a couple things and they are relatively simple requests.
Happiness and Joy
Merry Christmas for our family to yours.
Ahead of Schedule
Can’t believe I already have our Christmas Card done–and I managed to get the calendars designed and ordered while still on sale.
Got the tree up tonight and putting lights up tomorrow. And there is snow in the forecast. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and most of my shopping is done 🙂
Oh–and this is my 999th post. I can’t believe it. Who knows when I’ll get the 1000th post up–feels like it should be something special.
A First Attempt
So, one of my brothers lives in Chicago and he and his partner love to do things with the kids when they come in town. They alternate holidays–this year Thanksgiving, next year Christmas, etc. My brother did some searching and found this awesome class he could do with the kids making gingerbread houses. There was on catch–it was in Texas and well that isn’t where we live. My brother isn’t the most attentive to details. But we thought that would be fun and decided we would do gingerbread houses at our house.
I have never made a gingerbread house–and I now know that my brother hasn’t ever made one either. Well, I spent an hour yesterday making the dough, then I had to cut it out and bake each of the pieces (sorry no pictures of that–thankfully I am not a food blogger). My brother and his partner showed up today with way more stuff than we needed for the two small gingerbread houses we were making. With all they brought, we could have decorated quite a few more.
But we had a lot of fun and the kids thought it was so much fun.
Zoë’s masterpiece in process
Zoë’s finished Masterpiece (can you see the roof coming apart?)
Noah’s finished masterpiece
The finished products and the artists
About 30 minutes after the last picture, Zoë’s house collapsed due to an Earthquake. But the kids enjoyed eating it.
Embracing Imperfection 