Well friends we celebrated the solstice and Christmas last week! What fun! For the solstice we lit a fire in the fireplace, turned off all the lights in the house and ate dinner by candlelight! Then we went out to see the moon with our telescope. After our chilly outside viewing we ate a Yule log cake and read books by the fire! Overall I would say our solstice celebration was a success!
Then the kids had their last day of school and we made some more cookies (snickerdoodles) in preparation for Santa. We did a few holiday crafts, watched a couple Christmas movies, and then it was basically Christmas eve! For Christmas eve dinner we went to my parents’ house for some yummy food. Finally we got into our holiday jammies from Sugar and Daddy-O then headed off to bed. (Well the kids went to bed, we had to wrap a few things.) More on that next week.
Julius woke up at 6:30am and was waiting outside our door. Patricia woke up at 8am! Julius was going stir crazy by the point Patricia woke up because we told him he had to wait for Patricia to be up before he could open presents. He voraciously opened presents Santa had left under the tree in about 45 seconds, and finished the pile of presents and stockings in the living room after another 30 minutes. The kids then played with toys for the rest of the day. My parents joined us shortly after for an early dinner and more presents.
The next day we went to Will’s parents’ house where we got to spend time with friends and family and opened even more gifts. It was a great winter break… though I’m sad it’s already over!
I have been so excited to have a Christmas/holiday/solstice party the last several years but never seem to have the time. This time we finally decided to have a little cookie decorating activity with my BFITWWW and her family. I baked sugar cookies and we invited them over for cookie decorating and chili. To make it easy on myself I used the tubs of frosting you get at the grocery store and used gel food coloring to color them different colors. I filled them up in bags and put a bunch of sprinkles and m&ms out for decorating. This was easier for the kids since royal icing can be tricky! I apologize in advance for the photos being blurry I really need a new phone!
Patricia helped organize the cookie plate. I made just one batch of cookies but it was way more than enough. I used this recipe which is my favorite.
Here’s the table all set up with cookies, frosting and decorations
Cookie decorators avidly working
Here’s a couple of my cookies.
Oh I forgot! After cookie decorating and chili we had hot cocoa! Amy brought candy canes, marshmallows, pirouline sticks and whipped cream to top them!
Julius showing off the cookies! (Gosh these are so blurry I really need to get a new camera!)
