Gingerbread House

We made this gingerbread house today for Uncle Erik. We got the fun of putting it together, and Erik will get the calories. Everyone is happy! :-)

Our Christmas Project is Ready!

We did the last of our baking today and made our little goody bags. We will hand these out to the people we come in contact with in our community. Just a little homemade Christmas gift to share the love of God. We have attached a Christmas Bible verse to each package to remind people of the real meaning of Christmas. We're planning to give these out next week to our librarians, the grocery store clerk, the UPS man...anyone we come in contact with as we go about our day. We are praying that God will use us to touch the world around us.

Baked Item of the Day

Today we baked these Hershey Kiss Cookies:

More Crafts and Baking

Today G and I made these bookmarks for the special people in his life who love to read.

We also whipped up some Christmas fudge...mmm. Now the trick is to keep my fingers out of it so we'll have some to give away. :-)

First Purchase

G made his first purchase with his own money today. DH and I occasionally get Dove bars to eat after G goes to bed, and we're pretty stingy with them, so G decided he would buy his own. When we got to the store, we found that the Haagen-Dazs bars were on sale, so G got those instead. He was so excited to have his special treat tonight that he bought with his own money.
It turned out to be a nice simple math lesson as well. G took his $5 bill to the store, the bars were $3, and he got $2 back. We discussed that more on the way home.

Let the Christmas Baking Begin!

We kicked off the Christmas baking season with these gingerbread cookies. G had fun drizzling icing all over them and decorating them with sprinkles.
Here's the recipe we used for these. It was fun to see how the baking soda reacted with the molasses mixture!

Today's Craft...

Handprint and footprint reindeer craft!