2018 — Page 10

The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 8

Today our special thing was small, but the kids did have fun doing it and we have done it every year for the past three years I think. The kids put snowflake clings on the windows. They had fun and the snowflakes look pretty on the family room doors and the kitchen windows. It was small but still counts as we are not trying to do a lot of big things — just small fun things each day.

Piper helped me put lights on the hall tree today – I am slow getting this up as I usually have it up by Thanksgiving.

The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 7

Today Bethany had to go to the CF clinic so I knew we would not have a lot of time to do stuff. Her visits can take a long time and I had reason to believe this one would be a long one. It actually did not end up being that long, but I had already planned something that took up almost no time at all. So, the special thing for today was that I gave out Christmas socks – small but it counts as it was really special to the kids. Strange how such small things can be so much fun to a kid. They all loved picking out the socks they wanted. We did make cookies later – slice and bake so not really very hard. But, still fun.

I took a picture of some of the socks, but most of the kids had already chosen theirs and put them on before I remembered to get my camera and get a picture.