Christmas - It's in December This Year!
I have started planning for Christmas. You say it’s too early; I think it’s too late. I’ll never get everything done.
I always write a letter that I send out with all the goings-on for the family in the past year. I know I leave stuff out, but there’s so much to say! This year, we had 8th grade ending, summer school at Rice, PDR for Orion with all its attendant travel and overtime, Space School, hosting our first year-long exchange student, starting high school, varsity and junior varsity marching band, Dracula . . . the list goes on and on. Last year was a three-page letter; what will this year bring?
With Julia in the house this year, we’re cutting back on Christmas for everyone outside of the family in order to make more budget room for the kids. I’m making a Morsbag for each family (Mark’s parents, my parents, my other parents, grandparents, and close friends), and I plan to fill each Morsbag with goodies:
I’m really looking forward to putting together the bags with the kiddoes. I’ll have the girls help me make the soap (yay science fun) and the morsbags. If they want to, they can make the peppermint sticks and spoons on their own. The idea is to put together an inexpensive bag of goodies for all the people we love.
I always write a letter that I send out with all the goings-on for the family in the past year. I know I leave stuff out, but there’s so much to say! This year, we had 8th grade ending, summer school at Rice, PDR for Orion with all its attendant travel and overtime, Space School, hosting our first year-long exchange student, starting high school, varsity and junior varsity marching band, Dracula . . . the list goes on and on. Last year was a three-page letter; what will this year bring?
With Julia in the house this year, we’re cutting back on Christmas for everyone outside of the family in order to make more budget room for the kids. I’m making a Morsbag for each family (Mark’s parents, my parents, my other parents, grandparents, and close friends), and I plan to fill each Morsbag with goodies:
- Homemade peppermint soap
- Chocolate-dipped spoons and peppermint sticks
- Lavender sachets (Mark has a metric crap-ton of lavender around from a previous project)
- Blackberry Jam if I can make it
- Maybe some hot cocoa
- Beer bread mix, and
- A mini-loaf of homemade bread
I’m really looking forward to putting together the bags with the kiddoes. I’ll have the girls help me make the soap (yay science fun) and the morsbags. If they want to, they can make the peppermint sticks and spoons on their own. The idea is to put together an inexpensive bag of goodies for all the people we love.