To start it off, Matt was part of a fabulous 1st grade play called "The Great Gingerbread Kid Caper". Papa, Adam and I went to his school to watch the play, and then enjoy decorated gingerbread cookies and punch. It was adorable!
Later that evening, I hosted my 2nd annual neighborhood cookie exchange. There were 14 of us, and we each made 8 dozen cookies! No one actually brought gingerbread, but some of what was there included: peppermint bark, peanut butter blossoms, salted nut rolls, truffles, pecan pie tarts, maple creams, spritz, Norwegian Krumkakka (no idea how to spell that), almond toffee clusters, and a few others. Yummy, yummy! One of the girls estimated that each of us ended the night with 5,000+ calories worth of cookies! Yucky, yucky!
While I was hosting the cookie exchange, Brian took the boys over to Nana and Papa's for their yearly gingerbread house decorating tradition. The boys look forward to this every year. To lessen the chance of arguing over the house, Nana found pre-made gingerbread men, and each of the boys got to decorate a couple of those. They came home a couple of hours later with several elaborately decorated gingerbread men.
Our house is more than stocked with goodies, the shopping and wrapping are just about done, and Christmas is almost here!
A clip of the play
Mrs. Heuser (Does she scream 1st grade teacher, or what?!)
A proud 1st grader!
Cookies from Nana & Papa's house
Cookie Exchange spread!
5 comments:
I'm getting a sugar high just reading about your day.
Love the Gingerbread man play, with the hats and aprons.
Your cookie exchange looks wonderful!
Sugar high indeed!
Matty is absolutely adorable in the apron and chefs hat! Can't wait to give him a hug:)
Fun! With how busy you always are, how could you ever find time to be even more domestic? You do a great job at balancing out your life and family.
i LOVE the video clip! and, i've decided what i want for christmas... MATT! :)
Love the video clip - Matt is becoming quite the performer!
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