Christmas-y
I love this time of year. Dragging the dusty bins off the shelves in the garage, sorting the Christmas tree branches according to size, plugging twinkle lights in, lighting extra candles and seeing the kid's eyes light up when they walk in the door from school and see that the house has been transformed to a winter wonderland. Minus the winter.
This year we made a bucket list and it was fun spending the month of December crossing things off.
Paper snowflakes, so simple but hours of fun. Or at least 27 minutes.
Our friends threw an amazing Christmas party. The only problem was trying to get these two to sit with Santa for a picture. How can they already be out growing that??
Sunday morning pajama and pancake bar. Because any excuse to load pancakes with chocolate chips, marshmallows, sprinkles, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and then call it a well rounded breakfast.
Grandma gave us a Christmas puzzle, Maddox and I were hooked. No one else seemed to have much interest but I loved spending some one on one time sorting through the 500 different black pieces and high fiving when we finally found the right one. We decided to make it an annual tradition, even if it is just the two of us.
One annual tradition that everyone is always on board with is the gingerbread house contest because anything with the word "contest" in it gets everyone all worked up. Have I mentioned everyone in the family is fiercely competitive except me?? But it does make for a fun night where the laughs tend to drown out the raised voices and accusations of copy cats and bribery. Not pictured, but equally note worthy was taking a golf cart ride around the neighborhood for a Christmas light scavenger hunt, decorating sugar cookies and gingerbread men, Christmas movies on repeat, Christmas books in bed, doing service projects, sending out Christmas cards, delivering neighbor treats, Christmas parties, homemade goodies...even though I feel the pressure to make every day of the month jam packed and memory filled, it still manages to be the most wonderful time of the year.
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Why, Happy New Year! - and thank you for such happy Sunday morning reading! It all sounds lovely. Particularly impressed by 1/ the fine detail of those hanging snowflakes (I also made a few, as a creative procrastination exercise when I was supposed to be finishing an academic paper), and 2/ you and the puzzle. Puzzles are unrecognised intrigue, fun and achievement - which alas are much overlooked in the digital age!!!! I started one earlier in the year "to do a little bit each night", but in the end ALL I could do was work on it until it was finished, as it drove me crazy sitting unfinished. Wishing you best of health, laughter, and adventure this year J!, xxx Ali
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