Well, our tree has been up for almost 2 weeks now. As soon as Xavier was old enough to love hot chocolate (maybe 4 years old), we started a tradition of having hot chocolate and chocolate finger cookies while we decorated our tree. No rations. As many cookies as you want. This year, as the adults tried to get the lights on the tree and the decorations out and ready to go, the kids were dying for their hot chocolate and cookies. So, on went a Christmas video, out came the treats, the kids snuggled into the couch while the adult kept trying to get the tree ready. Eventually some decorations made their way on to the tree.
A few days later, Leo got out his lego trains and track and the kids helped him set up a track around the tree. They built a present car (with mini lego presents), got the engine and tender ready, and around the tree it went. At one point Xavier took his digital camera, put it on a flatbed, turned on the video function, and sent it around the tree. It is a hilarious video. I will have to see if we can download it to the blog.
Tonight we will start a new tradition -- making gingerbread houses. We got a great cast iron mold to make the cookies (at Lee Valley Tools), and Leo is stopping at the Bulk Barn to load up on candy. Leo's dad used t make spectacular gingerbread houses. It will be fun to see how the kids first ever houses turn out. A friend of mine told me they always put little gingerbread people inside their house as a surprise for whoever gets to break it open. Fun.
Hope you are all getting you fill of Chrismas goodies.
Mary
Hello to those in Hull, Quebec,
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing the lego train Christmas video circling the tree.
I am up in Citadel Crest Heath while Doral and Anita are at their Christmas work party. Ceilidh is watching T.V., the world's funniest videos of Christmas and she was laughing so hard she woke me up from my sleep with Meighan.
I am lucky that I got to babysit tonight. I had plans of coming tomorrow night, until I got the phone call that I wouldn't be any use tomorrow, as the party is tonight.
The kids and I deoorated graham wafers with royal icing left over from Dalton's gingerbrad house project at school. That is, the girls and I did this. Our creations are not going to compete, either with Dalton's work, or with any of the world's best decorated gingerbread houses.
We did have fun learning how to squeeze the icing out of wax paper tubes and make zig-zags and wavy lines on the graham wafers.
And we used up a lot of old Halloween candy as well. Some of it went on the houses.
AJ