A few days before Christmas we had to prepare our sugar cookies for Santa. Leah and Andrew helped me make the dough, then roll it out, cut it into shapes (which involved a WHOLE LOT of sugar, by the way), and then frost them. We’d already done gingerbread cookies the same, so they were pros at this!
As you can see, this task required great concentration.
Even Abigail got in on the fun. I was hoping she’d try to flatten out the dough like Leah & Andrew were doing, but instead she took it and immediately put it in her mouth! Oh well, she knows what’s good!
Christmas Eve we had a lot of things we wanted to fit in! After a nice dinner, we let the kids open one gift each plus a family gift. We had put out the gifts that were from us & from Nana & Pawpaw the night before and all day they were asking if they could open them!
They got Christmas jammies! They immediately changed.
The family gift was a Christmas book—The Polar Express, and a movie—Frosty the Snowman. So we enjoyed some of our cookies while we watched the movie.
Then we read the book. I tried to get a cute picture of all of them in their jammies but as usual the little one isn’t a big fan of not being held when she’s tired.
We put out our cookies & egg nog for Santa and Leah colored him a picture.
Then we shifted to a more Christ-centered focus. We opened the last box in our “What Jesus Wants for Christmas” set, which we’ve now done 3 years in a row. Each box contains a character in the nativity so the kids get to help set it up as we go along.
We read the Christmas story from the Bible and then acted it out. Leah was Mary and Andrew was Joseph (and then the shepherds and then a wise man). They went door to door in the house looking for a room to stay. The last stop was bed. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them so excited about actually going to bed. They knew Santa couldn’t come until they were asleep.
Santa had come and gone before 11pm!
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