We did a bunch of things leading up to the big day... including our annual Christmas Cookie Bake-fest at Aunt Kristy's house this year. We started bright and early at 9 *cough* and baked, chatted, kids played and created havoc until around 5pm! It was a full day of baking including press cookies (lemon & almond) that we used to make with my Grandmother, kifli's (lekvar & apricot) using a new technique that I'm not sure I'm going to repeat next year - I'll stick with what Grandma used to do, chocolate chip, some other chocolate thing, and chocolate covered pretzels and cookies. Apparently chocolate is a big hit in our family...
Here is Maddie and Molly mixing up the dough for the kiflis. They took turns helping roll it out on the well floured dusted table.Christmas Eve was a full day for me.. I worked all day, then came home and we had dinner, baked cookies for Santa, and once the little one was asleep, got everything ready for the big day...
Maddie all dressed up for her school holiday party on Christmas Eve.
Everyone knows that you need to wear a princess crown when baking sugar cookies for Santa. Maddie helped to roll out the dough and used various cookie cutters to make some non-traditional shaped cookies for Santa Claus including, baby chicks & ducks along with some angels and hearts. And no, you don't wear an apron when making cookies for Santa, it's better to get the flour all over you *grin*
Cookies baked, glass of milk on the table, stockings hung on the really, really crowded fireplace... all that is left is to head off to sleep!
Christmas Day didn't arrive too early thankfully, I think we got up around 7am which is sleeping in for us these days...
Nana came over Christmas Eve and spent the night. She got to see how Santa had ate most of the cookies and drank some milk, he also..oh no! He left his hat!!!
Which Daddy then wore for the rest of the morning =)
Maddie got several fun things from Santa, Mommy & Daddy & Nana that morning including this fun kids digital camera. I think she took over 80 pictures that morning. You'll also notice the backpack she now has that Santa brought her - adorable with NO commercial advertising on it! YAY!!!!
She's been walking around with it putting toys, her pencil box and notebooks in it and going from place to place with it packing and unpacking it all of the time... We'll be taking it with us to Florida - it will be a safe place for her toys (it will also limit nicely how much she can bring)
My parents, sister and her family came later on Christmas day for dinner and some family time. It was casual - which is very much what we are. Relaxing - which is what family time should be. Fun as well - Molly and Maddie played very well together and Cole joined in for some grownup conversation at the table before retreating to his handheld electronic games (which I have no idea about) I think I mortified him when I saw a necklace he was wearing with a NY team logo, which I mistakenly took for the Yankees (which he LOVES) when it was actually the Giants - silly Aunt Kim, it's football season of COURSE he'd be wearing the NY for the Giants. I'll bet he thinks I'm a sports illiterate. I'm fine with that though *grin* We did miss Kevin & his family, they couldn't make it over for Christmas. But the good thing is that we'll all be together in Florida soon!
All in all, I'd say it was a good Christmas...
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