My Mangled Meanderings: Christmas Eve

We were busy, busy, busy on Christmas Eve. I keep trying lots of things, hoping that some of them will stick and become traditions. As far as baking, I made chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal raisin cookies. I also baked the "Happy Birthday to Jesus" cake and the kids decorated with the sprinkles. I made snowman sugar cookies which the kids decorated. The kids also decorated Rice Krispies wreaths. I helped Velma make her Grandma Bert's orange slice cake. We also made pigs-in-a-blanket for Christmas morning.

We lit the Advent Wreath one last time and the kids opened their one Christmas Eve present. They got matching jammies to wear on Christmas morning. Those can be seen on the "Chloe is Twenty-one Months Old" post.

The kids set out their cookies for Santa on their new plate before they went to bed. I documented that on the "Cookies for Santa" post.

Daddy jumped in and fashioned the snowmen's hats out of orange slices.

Chloe decorated the two cookies on the left, Sawyer the ones in the middle, and I did the one on the right. Chloe kept yanking the arms off hers, and Sawyer made one of his female with a little help from Daddy.

We never ate the Rice Krispies wreaths, but the kids sure had fun making them.

The wreaths turned out really well.

As if the day weren't crazy enough, Lorne was playing bowling on Wii when Chloe walked in front of him. He was trying to keep from hitting her and he threw the remote into the screen of his television and shattered the screen. I told Lorne that I had to tell people because he does stupid things so rarely that I had to share when he does.

He went to Best Buy and grabbed a new television that same day. I was hoping that he'd find a better sale, but I think that he got it for the same price as the first one.