These are the things I wish to accomplish this holiday season:
- Assign and work through a Thanksgiving history project with the kids
- Assign a Christmas essay to the girls, and a creative writing project for the younger set and help them through those
- Learn and make 3 new crafts that the kids can help with
- Do some sewing and crafting of my own, with friends!
- Mail crafty gifts in the mail with postage and addresses in the mail in the mail in the mail, and not stacked in my car waiting to be mailed
- Make lots of gingerbread dough so the kids can build and create together
- Take long walks outdoors in the not-hot weather
- Start training for the February Color Run in Austin
- Make and keep an advent calendar for once
- Make a toddler-proof nativity (out of felt? wood?)
- Bake treats for all the neighbors we know and a few we don’t
- Visit the Trail of Lights at Zilker
There ya go. Now that I have publicly stated my (overzealous and probably unrealistic) ambitions, I need to Google Calendar all this stuff so that some of it actually happens.
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Methinks the crafting and toddler friendly nativity set can be combined. No?
Yes. Yes, indeedy.
I love our advent calendar (it is the whole basis for “Holiday School” in the month of December). Decided I would make advent calendars for the small group of homeschool mamas I meet with. One down, one almost done…. 6 more to go. And now I’m thinking maybe I was a little ambitious myself….. *sheepish grin* But hey, it never hurts to set the bar high. =) Have fun!!
Are you making them out of fabric?
Yes…. I wish I could post a picture or something??? Not sure I’m advanced enough technologically to do that. Do you get picture texts? Because I could do that easily. =)
Yes! Picture text! Do that.
I want to say that I could send you one of the wood nativity sets that I had planned to make so many of— like Donna’s. You should have a set.. I gave you mine many moons ago. But if not, I’ll try to get this set finished and mailed to you. — Your mama
We’re missing like two whole boxes of our first years of Christmas decorations, including some really pretty ornaments from Jason’s grandmother and some of the girls’ firsts. I think it must have been among the bags and boxes that were stolen out of storage in Ojai when were moving to Westwood.