This Holiday Season

My joy

I have truly been horrible at writing blogs the past few months. It is so easy to let life just get too busy. We are trying to work on that this new year.

We have enjoyed a wonderful holiday season! This year we had two Thanksgivings. I am glad that we were able to celebrate with family. Dinner was delicious and the kids had other kids around to have fun with.

Night time fire

Christmas was simply lovely. I really had a good month. The kids are at such wonderful ages for the holidays and Meli was into anything Christmas. I read the children's classic version of A Christmas Carol and some other short stories from a book I received as a Christmas gift when I was 9. I love that Meli is doing better following chapter books! I have so many books I want to read to them.

First gingerbread house

Playing with new camera

I love it!

The kids made their first gingerbread house. I am fairly certain I have not done this before. I made the mistake of letting it sit too long and it was super hard when the kids tried it. Lesson learned! We did our traditional drive with hot cocoa to go see all of the Christmas lights. It was nice seeing what our new home had to offer for Christmas. There is a perfect corner for the tree. When you come down the stairs it has a perfect view. I think I am going to love this house.

The Santa bags I ordered off of Etsy were perfect!

The kids loved seeing Santa's wrapped gifts inside the bags

The kids went to see Santa at the mall. One of the best Santa's I have seen. He was so nice. It was perfect timing, because there was no line. One started by the time we were done, but Santa took the time to walk over to me and put his hand on my shoulder saying that my kids were so well-behaved and they said "thank you" even though I was not around them at the time. He told me we must being doing something right. It really made me feel great that he was impressed enough to come and seek me out to tell me this. It also made me wonder, what kind of kids he sees most of the time.


This year we wanted a very small, quiet Christmas. Our plans changed a little but it ended up very nice. I love seeing family.

Christmas day was perfect. We had our morning to do gifts, Santa came and surprised everyone with the perfect gifts. We relaxed while dinner was cooking. I even got to read some! Then family came for dinner.

I ventured away from sewing this year for gifts and did some woodwork. I will post later about items I made. I loved working with wood and imagine that this will be something I continue.

I hope everyone had a nice holiday! Merry Christmas!



                                                          ~ Love, Hugs & Kisses ~
                                                                  The B Family