Sweet and Beautiful

 DD baking her cookies. She took turns playing me and herself (dd as "mommy" rolled out the dough and dd as dd cut the shapes).

 Putting the cookies in the oven.

 Cookies baking.

 Checking on her cookies.

 Tying the ribbons.

This was sooooo cute. My rolling pin was out on the counter and dd started up this whole game, tell me how she was "you, mommy!" and rolling out the cookies. And then playing herself and cutting them and everything just like we did yesterday. She asked for cookie cutters and "that board" and then she said she needed an oven and when they were baked asked for string so she could hang them on the tree.

On third day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

Cookie Ornaments

{pretty, happy, funny, real} Christmastide

Pretty

Finally got the tree decorated. We planned on having it decorated Christmas Eve, which didn't happen. We did manage to get it decorated by the Feast of Stephen. This year we have edible ornaments, so I assume by Twelfth Night there won't be many decorations to take off the tree.

Happy

Baking cookie ornaments with the little ones was so much fun! We have lots of "J"s (or candy canes) and stockings because those shapes were DS1's favorites.

Funny and Real

The best toys? The six dollar thirty cent toy bins.

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me....

Merry Christmas!

Un Petit Réveillon

     Réveillon (from the French réveil, or "waking) is a tradition in French-speaking cultures of a meal or party after midnight Mass. Our little Réveillon included a traditional French-Canadian tourtière (meat pie), hot mulled apple cider, and a bûche de Noël. The Christmas log is a culinary reflection of the old Western European tradition of burning a great log at Christmas time, that would be lit on Christmas night and burn throughout the Christmas season.

"To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11

Joyeux Noël!