Dec 8 - make gingerbread houses
A few weeks ago, we attended a festival of lights event and they had lots of gingerbread houses. Like houses people entered in competitions. I was sure our houses would be so awesome this year. They turned out very...amateurish :) Note to self: chocolate graham crackers are much less sturdy than regular graham crackers.
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| our finished products, from left to right: cayle's house, mommy's house, lindy's/daddy's house |
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| I used cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes. Tasty, tasty dinner! |
Dec 10 - have a Christmas music dance party
This was hilarious. I bought a $5 CD of kids Christmas tunes at Wal-Mart. Poor Lindy was so dizzy she could barely stand...
Our dance party
Dec 11 - take snacks to the retirement home
We have a retirement village across the street from our house. Cayle and I made white chocolate dipped pretzels to take to the residents. It just so happened to be a 1/2 day SIP day, so I was able to come home at lunch and run over with Nick and the kids to share our goodies. The residents loved the kids and Cayle did a great job walking around asking if anyone wanted a pretzel :)
Dec 12 - have sparkling cider with dinner
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| What pretty drinks! Sparkling apple cider with a drop or two of red/green food coloring :) |
Dec 13 - make snow flakes
Cayle made snow flakes with daddy the other day. He hung them on the windows in his bedroom and Lindy's bedroom.
I was super proud of Cayle (and Lindy) this day. I explained to Cayle that some boys and girls don't have any toys to play with, and we have so many. So we went through every toy we had and got rid of duplicates or toys they don't use any more. He was really excited to help out and didn't complain a bit.
Dec 15 - decorate cookies and deliver to neighbors/family/friends
Mommy cheated a little on this one. We just so happened to make rolo/pretzels, chocolate chews, and peppermint brittle the day before. So on this day we just made the sugar cookies and the oreo balls
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| Our finished products! |
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| close-up |
Last night, we drove around town and found two houses whose lights are synched to music. I find that so fascinating! And the kids loved listening to the radio station that matches the house lights. We also drove through a Winter Wonderland of lights set up by the park district. The kids got to take some snacks and drinks with them, and wore their jammies. It was easy to carry them both straight from the car to bed after our drive :)
Dec 17 - wrap Christmas presents
Finally getting started on wrapping gifts. Since we don't have to ship everything, I've completely procrastinated in this area this year.
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