What happens when I go out in the evening and the girls are home with dad?
Forts happen. How cute is Ellie's little face in there?
I'm sitting here and winding down from a morning Christmas party at Wren's play group today. There were treats, lots of kids and even Santa made a visit. It was ca-razy people. Even Santa left with not so much as a "Ho-ho-ho!" or "Merry Christmas!". He wanted outta there!
I'm hoping to get a photo from the mom that was taking the pictures of kids on his knee. I plopped Ellie in his lap and Wren happily cooperated to stand next to him...I mean he gave her a candy cane so obviously he's now her best friend.
You know how I detest Costco for it's psycho-busyness...well I kind of hate playgroup for the same reason (Eep! Did I just say that out loud?) and I've only been taking Wren for, well, Wren. Not me. I'm so excited for her to start preschool and I'm so much more excited to not go to playgroup anymore- it's like my New Years resolution. ha!
We are finished attending our Christmas parties and Kenton is SO ready to have some time off over the holidays. I think the girls are going to be thrilled to have him home so much, Wren gets very tired of seeing my face every minute of the day.
We hope to go to Candy Cane Lane tonight...in the car. I know, I know you're supposed to walk it, but it's like -30C out so I'm not getting out of my car if I can help it. I was going to take the girls to get Santa mall photos until he came today to playgroup so I said screw waiting in a mall line up and having my kids melt down, we technically already saw him.
I've been reading a lot of blogs talking about Christmas traditions. At first I couldn't think of any I had growing up, and then I realized that we totally did- we would go to the Christmas Eve church service, come home and eat (or was it the other way around?) and then go downstairs and open presents....on Christmas EVE. All the other kids had to wait until Christmas Day, as far as I understood at the time. My sister and I also loved watching a Muppet Christmas Carol on the archaic technology of VHS. It was hilarious and a great version of the story. Then Christmas morning we would get to open our stockings and then go to a relatives house and spend the day with family.
So I've been thinking of what family traditions we should have with our own girls. We are just on the cusp of instilling some, as the girls are still small enough they don't really care. I'm sure Wren would just say "Eat candy canes!" and be done.
Her first tradition is a chocolate advent calendar. For obvious reasons, she has loved this. Also, listening to the latest Glee Christmas album while dancing in the living room and drinking egg nog with dad.
Here is a total side note on egg nog for you. I had a conversation with Wren about her favourite part of Christmas to which she said "Jingle bells" are her favourite part. Then she said, "What's Daddy's favowit part of Cwismass?"
I said, "Hmm, I don't know. Well, Daddy reeeally likes egg nog. It's like a sweet, milk kind of drink." She thought about that for a second and then looked at me and said, "No. Daddy likes coffee and beards."
"Beers you mean?"
"No. BearDs."
There you have it folks.
Any thoughts on some other good traditions?
Here are a couple I liked:
Angel Chimes from A Cup of Jo
Gift Giving Traditions from Designmom
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