We've been busy this past week finalizing Christmas preparations. This year we made the mason jar candy gifts that we did a couple of years ago for Brynn's and Clara's teachers. They are so fun to make and the girls had a blast helping with them. Don, Brynn's, bus driver got a little box of cookies; otherwise everyone else received these babies. Clara's 'classmates' got Play-doh and stickers from her. When I picked Clara up from daycare today, her cubby was overflowing with gifts from the other kids in her room.
The other night Clara found some of these cellophane party favor-type baggies and was in a frenzy stuffing all her stuffed animals (well, the ones that would fit anyway) into each bag she had. I'm not quite sure what her goal with it was, other than I thought maybe this was her way of wrapping gifts.
Yesterday Clara had PJ day at daycare. All of us parents dropping off that morning were commenting that we wished PJ day could have been extended to parents too! All the little toddlers looked so cute and cozy in their jams.
Each morning that I turn on Clara's lamp in her room to change her, she throws her blankets over her face to shield her eyes from the light. This morning she was extra squirrely and said, "where is me?" haha. I found you, Clara.
By the time today rolled around, I had several errands that I still needed to do and had just not gotten to during this week. Plus, it was gingerbread decorating day at Brynn's school and I was planning on going to that. So, I ended up starting my Christmas vacation early by taking the afternoon off work. I have also taken off all of next week as well and am very much looking forward to it!
So, we had a good time decorating Brynn's house today, though I didn't really assist much at all. I tied the licorice bow and put the green frosting on the 'tree.' That was about it!
The kids made these cute Santa crafts.
Christmas vacation is officially on for all of us now, as Dana also is off all of next week, and we'll have the girls stay home from Hope as well. They'll be staying at Grandpa and Grandma Froemmings' until Tuesday and Daddy and I will come back home on Sunday.
Tonight we kicked off vacation with the 'Polar Express' movie. We hadn't seen it before, but it was really good. Clara got scared, though, when the 'train fell down,' and it was bedtime for her anyway, so she was done with it at that point. Brynn really loved the movie and even got emotional at the end which was interesting because movies never seem to make her sad at all.
We'll start our Christmas celebration tomorrow by opening up our presents to the girls and such at home here and then attending our church's Christmas service before heading to Fergus Falls to Dana's parents.
Merry Christmas, everyone! I'm sure I'll have lots of pics to post after the holiday. I'm off to finish wrapping presents.
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