Christmas Cards

Day Six: Make Christmas cards for friends and for soldiers.

On December 6, we put on our creative hats and made Christmas cards. The kids made cards for friends. Then they each made a card for a solider.

We are mailing the soldier cards to "Holiday Mail for Heroes." This is a program run by the Red Cross, which sends cards to American service members, veterans and their families both in the United States and stationed around the world.

You can read about the program here: Holiday Mail for Heroes

Note: If you are interested sending a card to a solider as a part of Holiday Mail for Heroes, the cards have to be postmarked by December 9th.

Ornaments, Edible Trees, and a Christmas Movie

25 Days of Christmas: Days 3-5

Day 3: On the third day of December, we got our PJs on early, filled a Christmas tree plate with snacks, circled up around the TV and watched a Christmas movie.

Day 4: On the fourth day of December, we made ornaments. These were easy ornament kits that we found at Target.

Day 5: On the fifth day of December, we made edible Christmas trees. These were delightful to make and tasty sweet to eat.

The pallet:

Making the trees:
Now that's one fancy chef hat

Hard at work

"Momma, I need a star." Nope, no idea where that first star went...

The finished trees:

Fun to make and fun to eat

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Tree Night

Day Two of our 25 Days of Christmas: Decorate the Christmas Tree

Tonight, we enjoyed a dessert of cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate.

We were silly. We laughed a lot.

The kids danced to the sound of Christmas music. Ornaments were hung on the tree with care. Even one sweet bear named Softy hung an ornament or two.

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An Intentional Christmas

In an effort to have more holiday fun as a family and keep from getting lost in the hustle and bustle of the season, this year I am celebrating by doing Christmas activities each day until Christmas. We will do our usual traditions and possibly create some meaningful new ones.

I surprised the kids with this idea today when they came home from school. They love it. Each day they will be surprised with an activity. Some days the activity will be simple and other days it will be more involved. Some days it will just be me and the kids (because my husband is working long hours during the holiday season) and other days it will be something that the whole family will enjoy together.

I will post about the activities, as I can. I am sure that I won't take pictures every day but I will post a list of what we do each day.

Day One: Enjoy a holiday treat and read the Christmas story.
We had a Christmas tree rice krispie treat, homemade hot chocolate, and candy canes. We had the Christmas story in Luke and from a Bible story book. Today we read the story from the story book and talked about some of details from the Bible.

I love the how excited the kids were, the laughter we shared, and the great conversation we had about Jesus's birth.