Christmas recipes
We've had a lot of long days and late nights over the past 2 weeks, and in spite of the paper snowflakes and chains and the enormous poinsetta in the corner of the room, our house just doesn't "feel" like Christmas this year. We don't have a tree, and the colored lights on the deck blew a fuse over a week ago. There are a few wrapped gifts here and there on the bookshelves, but we have yet to unearth the nativity scene.
We have done absolutely no Christmas baking so far, and no Advent readings of any sort. This could be our most un-Christmas-y Christmas ever. I might just start wishing people a happy holiday season.
Or maybe we'll get in gear. I think we'll make some of these and these today, and put the nativity right in the middle of the dinner table. And I'll wrap more gifts. The 7 packages dropped off by our mail carrier just a minute ago will help. And I bought a package of fasteners to try this fun craft too. I heard about it from the Headmistress. Not so frugal if you have to buy the fasteners, but it just sounds fun. You can see the Headmistress's results here. We could work on these while somebody reads Luke's account of the birth of Christ.
We have lots of apples, and I'm even thinking about making some apple pies for breakfast tomorrow. Mmmm. I feel better already.
What's on your plate today? What's on the menu for Thursday? What new recipes or crafts have you tried this month? What do you plan to try?
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If you are looking for a cheap Christmas tree, we got ours on Sunday night for $5 at Walmart and I’ve seen a few stands around here are have signs for $0:) We don’t live near you though, so I’m not sure what the prices are in your neck of the woods!
Ugh! I know the feeling. We moved over 600 miles just a week ago. I have two presents for each child and no decorations up. I don’t even know where the Christmas stuff is right now. I’m going to have to send out an email to relatives to let them know their gifts won’t be sent out until January. What a strange holiday this is turning into. Nonetheless, Merry Christmas!
we tried something new, hand dipped pretzel rods in white or dark choc dipped in various sprinkles. then left to sit on slightly greased wax paper. it looks as you really “did” something… but this kids did all of it for me
those projects are fun too. you get to eat the goodies and you didnt make them!
we did our 3 traditional cookies too, banket, frosted butter cookies and butter balls.
Merry Christmas! Hope you got my email Christmas card earlier today
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family!!!
I love reading your blog! It just makes me feel like I am a normal mom like everyone else! (Instead of pressured to be perfect and failing miserably!) Money has been tight this year but we made popcorn balls (like rice crispy treats but with popcorn rolled into balls with red and green m&ms added) and I downloaded free books on sermons onto cds for my brothers for Christmas. I made kefir cheese for my mom (I have a lot of kefir!) I feel like I’ve been working really hard but we’ve not gotten in the spirit of Christmas either. Today we are snowed in. So…. instead of going to see family, we are reading the stories we’ve skipped so far and baking and decorating together. So, really, the snow is God’s gift to me so I can ENJOY my kids this year! (Because I let the busyness of the season take over and forgot what was important! OUCH!) God is so good!
In Christ Alone, mel
Hope visiting your parents gave your Christmas the oomph it needed! That was a very cool mission!
Ours was kind of a bleh sort of Chirstmas in some ways, too.
Anyway- thanks for the link, and the pictures don’t really quite show up as well as the bows. I did find a way to make them look just as good with a stapler instead of brads. I am going to use this for birthdays and presents outside the family.
If you can hold the loops all together in a stack, and then sort of pinch the stack in the middle of the back and staple that pinched bit (I am terrible at explaining crafts), the bows stay flat, still look good, and staples are cheaper than brads.=)