Adam and I took some time off to spend with the kids and it has been SO nice. I’ve had a list a mile long of things that I wanted to do with the kids and haven’t had time thanks to a busy work schedule. We knocked one of my favorites off the list today, making Salt Dough Christmas ornaments.
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Crafts with Daddy
I cannot take credit for this one, it was all Adam.
School Christmas Show
The kids school does a Christmas show every year and it is beyond cute. Toddlers up on stage, singing and dancing? Love it!
Jammies in the Mail!
Every year, my mom’s group does a pajama exchange for our little ones. Braden loves getting mail, especially those wrapped in festive paper!
Trimming the Tree
We have a tradition. Every year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we decorate our Christmas tree while watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and drinking hot cocoa or hot apple cider, then we have fondue for dinner.. well.. that didn’t happen. We got back from Bainbridge yesterday, had one day to do laundry and re-pack, then head to Orlando for a few days at Disney.
Visiting Santa Claus!
Last year, we took the kids to North Light Studios to meet Santa and have their picture taken. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made – the kids got a 15 minute time slot with Santa with zero wait! The photographer goes in and briefs Santa before he takes the kids back, so as soon as they walked in, Santa greeted them both by name. I thought Braden was going to fall over! He had his shy little grin, it was too cute. He wasn’t thrilled with the idea of climbing up in Santa’s lap and Mackenzie wanted NOTHING to do with him.. so while I tried to calm Mackenzie, Santa and Braden had a nice little chat about pirate ships and bat caves, then Braden willingly climbed up into his lap and I tried my best to get Mackenzie to stand near Santa and look in the general direction of the camera without screaming. I’m pretty happy with the results.. much better than the mall Santa, that’s for sure!
Merry Christmas.. I mean, Happy New Year!
We celebrate Christmas with my moms side of the family every year the Sunday following Christmas. It’s something we’ve always done, since her parents were divorced, my papa wanted his girls to be with their mom on Christmas Day so she wasn’t alone. She passed a few years ago, but we’ve stuck with the schedule because with the craziness of the holidays.. sometimes waiting a week is the only way to get us all together. And there are a LOT of us.
Hurray! It’s Christmas Day!
Merry Christmas!! Braden was so funny, we were upstairs waiting for my parents to get here and I was telling him that Santa came and the presents were downstairs, but he had no interest in presents. He was concerned about breakfast. He kept telling me that we needed to go eat waffles and pancakes first, then we could open presents. Needless to say, that went right out the door when he got downstairs and saw the tree.
Merry Christmas Eve!
If Braden was happy yesterday when I told him that tomorrow was Christmas Eve.. he was freaking ecstatic today. Christmas Eve.. Santa comes tonight and Grandma Ruth comes today? And Daddy is home? AND no school? It’s the perfect trifecta, and then some!
It’s almost time..
Every morning when Braden wakes up, the first question out of his mouth is “Is it Christmas Day??”. When I tell him that it’s not, he gets all upset. Thankfully this morning he was happy when I told him that tomorrow was Christmas Eve and there was no school today!