We had a great time this year for Christmas.
The day before Christmas vacation started Alex got to decorate gingerbread cookies at school. He had a great time, though he didn't want to actually use any of the red hots we donated to the decoration project. I'm not shocked I confess. The only reason we sent red hots is because that's the only item on the list I found at Dollar Tree.
I do believe the little one's head has already been eaten...
Mary's class had a Roman Festival the day before vacation. They'd been studying about Rome for a while. The kids got to dress up with togas if they wanted. They each got to pick three activities to do. Doug went to help out and helped kids (mostly boys) make shields. Mary made jewelry and pottery and a mosaic. Here's the only picture Doug had time to take of her.
We tried to do some fun crafty type things here at home too. Some turned out better than others...
First, we decided to try to make candy cane cookies instead of sugar cookies. I think we'll go back to sugar cookies next year. They taste better... These were fun though.
We also tried making candy cane reindeer ornaments. It was something I threw together at the last minute when I came across some pipe cleaners, fuzzy balls, and googly eyes. My pictures turned out horrible, but maybe you can figure it out. (In my defense, my 10 megapixel camera somehow reset itself to take 3 megapixel pictures. Like who'd want 3 when they could have 10. Seriously, Vivitar? You could totally take that function out. Oh and while we're at it, make it easy to figure out how to set the date.)
Doug and the kids found other interesting things to do with the googly eyes...
Christmas Eve involved a little bit of trauma in our house. That afternoon Mary and Alex were out playing with the neighbors. Mary came in crying about 4:00 or so, but I was busy making rolls and then fudge and she's a bit of a drama queen at times so I didn't really think she was hurt or anything.
90 minutes or so later while Doug was monitoring dinner prep I was reading to her on the couch and I noticed her collarbone seemed to be bulging out a bit. So I did a little internet research and realized she'd probably broken it. Dinner was ready so we decided to just go ahead and eat. (Mary was on board with that decision, don't worry.) Then we skipped the nativity acting out portion of the evening and let the kids open a present per our tradition. Mary even tried her gift on first.
Then Mary and I headed out the door to Children's Hospital. Doug sent along his laptop so we could watch some movies during what we figured would be a long, long wait. Fortunately, Children's was fairly empty when we got there (unlike this summer when I took Adam in about his hernia). We still spent a couple hours there by the time the nurse checked her in, the doctor came to talk to us, we went to get x-rays, the doctor came back with the x-rays (definite break), and then a different nurse came back with a sling and to talk Mary into actually taking medication... Mary has major issues with actually swallowing medicine. She'd rather have a shot. The nurse was pretty good though and brought her a popsicle to eat after. I did come home and made a bunch of ice cube tray popsicles and she did pretty good taking medicine once she realized how much it helps the pain.
Anyway, we survived the trauma and had a great time the next morning.
Hope you all had a great Christmas too!
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