I made a promise to myself to make this Christmas Season full of memories. I have always tried to do fun things with my girls at Christmas and teach them the true meaning of Christmas. It seems like the whole material hoop-la takes over every year. Giving becomes a task when I try to stretch the few dollars I have to find a nice gift for everyone. Receiving can be so full of guilt because I don't feel like the gift I gave measured up to the one given to me. I am not going there this year! Every gift that I give is going to be from the heart and I am going to be thankful that I had the means to give it. It's going to be a year of making memories....enjoying my family (I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful family...every last one of them)...and having fun.
We made a day of Christmas Tree fun.
Sunday we had our annual Christmas Cookie bash.
What a day. We got started around 10:30 and I was finishing up at 10:00pm. I think we all had fun even Greg helped decorate a few(the smiley faces) cookies. The girls are such good help in the kitchen. All those years of being so stressed out and trying to teach them to cook is paying off.
The last ones in the kitchen...begging for a cookie.Now on to basketball games and band concerts.
I think next weekend we will read the Christmas story from the Bible and have a great meal in honor of Jesus. You know plan it around the football game and kids activities....hehe. Life is crazy but you do what you gotta do.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.
