I stayed home with the little monsters, who haven't been very monsterly recently - though they are LOUD! I drank cherry-chocolate coffee. The kids played on the front porch while rain poured down around them. It was a nice way to start the day.
Because I can, I'm gonna backtrack for a minute to blog something I didn't get to earlier this week...
On Monday night we went for a drive. We were looking for some pretty lights and boy did we get a surprise. Just a few blocks away we found a neighborhood we didn't even know was there. And the amazing thing is that for block after block there were luminaries - just little white paper bags with candles inside them, but they lined the streets in front of every house. I'm talking maybe 3 miles of luminaries! It was so beautiful. Many of the houses were decorated as well, but every single one had the little lights along the front yard.
Here is a close up of the tree we finally got decorated. The kids hung old ornaments - some that were my great-great grandmothers, some that were mine. They also hung new ones that they made this week. We glittered pine cones (and the livingroom) and made some cute new cardstock ornaments thanks to a pattern I found on Kiddly.
And here they are (blurry) by the candles. Happy 8th night of Hanukkah everyone!
It is the end of a busy day. The kids made a HUGE paper chain to drape along the front windows. We baked cookies. Piles and piles of cookies. I finished some last minute sewing projects. I watched a little season one of Six Feet Under (my not-so-secret TV love). We watched the rain and the fog. Jme has been reading early church history and helping me clean the house... not to mention fixing the dishwasher. How happy am I! Just in time for all the cookie-baking aftermath! Don't they look... yummy?
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