I hope everyone had a merry, merry Christmas! After presents were opened we had a pancake breakfast, packed up and hit the road to Georgia where we visited with family. We are back now, and I’m here to tell you all about it.
Below are some snapshots into our last minute makings from Christmas Eve to Christmas morning. I do believe, it’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Having my husband home all day was lovely – and a lot of help too! Bread was baked, cookies were made for Santa, dog treats were made for the reindeer, fleece toys were made for our dog Lulu, and jars of pear syrup were wrapped up from our own backyard as last minute gifts.
For a fun Christmas Eve dinner I knew the kids would eat, I made pizza in she shapes of Christmas trees, snowflakes and a bell. We did our annual reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas and set out the goodies for Santa and his reindeer.
And after that, just when I thought we were ready for bed, my oldest daughter decided to leave her dolls out by the tree, with the gifts she had prepared and wrapped for them – plus a note asking Santa to leave the dolls some presents too.
I told her that was very last minute and I’m not sure if Santa would have anything in his bag. Come to find out, Mrs. Claus tucked in some extras for these “just in case” situations – made in the very the nick of time! The extras was a breakfast set with toast, jam and yogurt for all the dolls to enjoy.
The girls got us up at a very early 5:15 AM!!! My memory is foggy from there. But as I wrote here, the morning played out quite nicely.
