Monthly Archives: December 2012

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Baking Christmas Cookies


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Today we continued to get things together for Christmas. A big shop at BJs in the afternoon followed by some fun home time and finished off with baking cookies.

A couple of weeks ago I went to BJs and picked up a 40 pack of batteries and some cat litter. I got home and couldn’t for the life of me find those batteries. I was kicking myself thinking that I had left them in the cart somehow. But, when we were wrapping gifts (or rather, Allison was wrapping gifts and I was telling her what to wrap and who things were from) I picked up the Hess truck bag and it was super heavy. I pulled out the box with the toy and there was still something in the bag. It was the batteries. For a couple weeks I’d been beating my brain trying to figure out where they went. Glad I did not leave them in the cart.

The Christmas cookies were Betty Crocker packages. We made some Sugar cookies and some Gingerbread ones. We have a great gingerbread man non stick pan and an old pan that had rocking horses, toy soldiers and angels. There is not enough non stick spray in the world to make that pan work. I managed to get two good soldiers one rocking horse and an angel from the pan. After that I stuck (no pun intended) with the Gingerbread boy/girl pan.

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Time to put up the Mini Trees


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The family tradition of tiny personal trees for the kids continues. Eva and Andrew each have a tree of their own and if they had enough room in their rooms then the trees would be there but for now the trees are in the second floor landing. I love having them there because we can all enjoy them as a family.

We decorated the trees tonight. Andrew enjoyed playing with the shatterproof decorations. Eva loved putting on all of her special ornaments from over the years. Each year we buy the kids one new ornament for their trees and we buy a family one that we can place a photo inside of. Eva got a Pocahontas one and Andrew a Snoopy one. We’ve been doing this for a few years and are starting to amass a decent collection of family photos on the tree. I really love doing that.

Tonight I started reading Eva the book Superfudge. The two of us were laughing really hard at it. Poor Allison was contending with a tough little customer in Andrew. He just would not give up and go to sleep. Eventually he did go but he is one stubborn kid when he doesn’t want to go down to sleep.