Merry Christmas!

We have had a very good one. But it's 7:09pm now and I have no idea how that happened. One minute we were waking up to presents-opening and Santa-brought gifts and the next it was getting dark.

This Christmas I did a lot more cookie/fudge-making and a bit more on the homemade gifts front. It's because this year I'm not pregnant and miserable about it. And I made sure we had an activity every day of advent, which I definitely didn't do last year. We went ice skating and made ornaments and decorated gingerbread houses and made crystal snowflakes with borax. It was great! I'm so glad that we didn't have to worry about being packed and ready to move on top of all that.

The girls wanted me to write about what they got because they said they forgot what they got last year. So here goes. Jammies for X-mas eve, a pair of pants, a shirt, and a sweater for each kid, socks for each kid, Mario Bros. Wii for all, Ghostbusters for the Wii for all, Piktureka for all, a webkinz cat for Saren, the new Zelda game and Scribblenauts for Saren, a Waldorf-like doll for Harper, 2 books for Harper, 2 Littlest Pet Shops for Harper, sparkly shoes for Irina, two movies for Irina (Mamma Mia and Enchanted), a princess polly pocket for Irina, a Barbie for Irina, sewing boxes for Saren and Harper (with scissors, needles, thread, embroidery floss, yarn, crochet hooks, measuring tape, cloth, felt), The Princess and the Pea for Irina plus a playset like this one made by me to go with it, Dani Noir for myself and Saren and Harper, a wooden bowl and spoon for Silas plus some wacky plastic toys and a few handmade by me toys, and pens and paper and other stocking stuff. Oh, and the latest Harry Potter movie because now we can see it proper. Hope it's better without all the ridiculousness of the drive-in. And a new Christmas book for the Christmas book basket (tradition).

Yay! That was fun. We have spent the day at home just hanging out and playing some of our new games. That's just the way I like it. But next year I think I'll make a french toast casserole instead of a sausage-egg casserole thingy.

Merry Christmas!