We spent yesterday morning and afternoon catching up on our Advent activities from earlier this week, including coloring Christmas pictures (see “Don’t Color Christmas Pictures“). We drew some Christmas pictures and made a few Christmas presents in the process. I’m dying to post pictures of these gifts, but I don’t want to give away the surprise. So I’ll leave you in suspense until Christmas!
While Hank was taking his nap, Elvis, Lydia, and I worked on Christmas cookies. It took me about 20 minutes to locate Granny’s Christmas cookie cutters, but after digging past the twenty varieties of cooking oil and multiple bags of brown sugar, there they were, behind the ice box. 🙂 I love spelunking in Granny’s pantry. You never know what you’ll find, for instance, not one but TWO jars of imitation banana flavoring.
Anyway, the kids and I cutout gingerbread cookies for yesterday’s advent activity. Sorry for the delay posting, for those of you sitting on the edge of your seat day-by-day waiting for the next Wells family advent update. *Crickets* Wait, no one is anxiously anticipating my daily updates? What?!
Last night, I spent several hours with my mom and dad decorating their *new* Christmas tree that I got to pick out as a surprise for Mom. We discovered as we were setting up the old one that half the lights were out, so I went out to get more lights and came back with a “life-like” tree. Can we just call it what it is: a fake tree?
We also watched I Don’t Know How She Does It with Sarah Jessica Parker, which was like watching my life, without the high-paying investment job and trips to New York. It was entertaining. I really enjoyed the time with my parents.
Tonight’s advent activity should be fun. I’ll update later!
Sarah Marie Wells 