Each year, it seems our neighbor/friend gift list gets longer and longer. I suppose it comes naturally with living somewhere for a while. You make more friends and acquantances over time. The problem is that we have a fairly limited budget for Christmas, so after making our list, I figured out that we could spend […]
Archives for December 2009
Tags
It has kind of become an annual tradition with the kids to make our own gift tags. Last year’s were so fun to make, I didn’t know what we would do this year. Luckily, my Christmas present this year is a Cricut machine (bought on deep discount on Black Friday). So I broke out my […]
Christmas ornaments
Every year I try to get the kids to help make an ornament for the Christmas tree, and every year I do all the work. So this year, I tried to find something that they could at least partially help with. I can’t remember where I saw this idea, but it looked easy enough for […]
Christmas Activities
Each year for our advent, I put together a list of activities to do with the kids. Here’s this year’s plan: 1 Get out and play with Little People Nativity set 2 Go see Santa & play at the mall 3 Make decorations for tree 4 Make candy covered Christmas trees (out of sugar cones/icing) […]