2020 — Page 8

The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas Day – 9

Today our special thing was to decorate our family room tree and make fudge and Rice Krispies Treats. Bethany made the fudge and it turned out great and Tess made some really good Rice Krispies Treats. Then we decorated the tree. There is quite a lot of enthusiasm going on in our house any time we do any decorating or baking or just about any Christmas activity. Today they were definitely excited. Tess can show more enthusiasm than anyone I have ever seen and today she definitely showed a lot. They worked on the tree for an hour or so and I think it looks nice now and we can finally clean up all the boxes and ribbon and beads out of our family room and make it a little more comfortable. Now we are almost finish decorating.

We also opened another bag and there were two books in today’s bag – Christmas in the Country and A Full House. I absolutely love A Full House and Bethany said it makes here feel homey and cozy. Its a great book by Madeleine L’Engle about the Austin family.

We also started our new chapter book today – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. I only read two chapters today but I think the kids laughed almost the entire two chapters so it was definitely a good choice. Today was a really good day and we got a lot done.

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The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas Day – 8

Today our special thing was to get new Christmas jammies. They didn’t all get the exact same ones this year, but they all liked what they got. The bad thing was I waited pretty late to hand them out and it was dark and I had a really hard time getting them all together in the really poor light. So, I don’t have a good picture of everyone this year. I took the pictures but they were so bad. Bad. There was not a single picture I liked with everyone in it.

We also opened our canvas bag the kids painted and read the books that were in it – A Cup of Christmas Tea and Christmas in the Trenches. We do this each day and for some reason it seems more exciting to open a bag and see what the book or two of the day is. We also finished The Christmas Doll and tomorrow we start a new book. I thought we would finish this a little earlier than we did, but we got kind of busy.

Bethany put the lights on our porch tree today and that was such a help as I have so much wrapping to do. She did a really good job – well, she has a tiny bit more to finish but it really looks good.