We had a wonderful, full month of December. My mother in law came to visit in mid December, from east Canada. It had been 3 years since her last visit and we were all so happy to see her again. Some of teh fun things we did for Christmas:
I had the most Christmas parties to go to. The Moms at my home study program had a party. My homeschool support group had a moms cookie exchange. My husband's company had a party. Our friends at the beach had their annual gift exchange, white elephant party. We got duds this year. There is supposed to be an even amount of nice $10 gifts and silly gifts. We got a Ped Egg (for feet) and OUR silly gift we gave last year! It backfired! It was some cheesy Christmas decals and place mats. Our gifts we gave were a cake stand and an ugly wall plaque of a deer hoof, bent up, like a hook. Weird. It was a hit, though, and even got stolen, so the woman who got was very relieved she had another chance.
We had a Christmas party for the kids at our house.
My high schoolers went shopping for poor kids, and helped put together gift bags with our home study program.
We went ice skating and Christmas caroling at a couple of nursing homes.
We made cookies with Grandma and Grammy.
We went to the local zoo to see the Zoolights. Millions of lights in the shapes of animals and all kinds of things. It was fabulous!
We saw the little Christmas scene at a local tire company's shop window. Very old fashioned and a family tradition.
We saw hundreds of Nutcrackers and Nativity scenes from around the world at a shop in town.
We read the Christmas Story about our Savior's birth.
We picked out a big Christmas tree at a lot instead of the store. We decorated it and my oldest son put up a lot of lights out front.
We went shopping and wrapped presents and watched a LOT of Christmas shows and movies.
We had a wonderful time.
