Day 21

Today is your Christmas Menu - when do you have your big dinner - Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? What do you do for breakfast? MMMMMm - it sounds yummy just thinking about it!

baking?

Today's question is do you do holiday baking? I love to bake for the holidays. I usually host a cookie swap at the beginning of Dec and I keep baking until Christmas. I love to share fun holiday treats with my family and friends. Here is one of my favorite recipes:

Mint Truffles
1 8oz package cream cheese - room temp
1 package mint oreos (or store brand) - finely crushed
chocolate chips

mix cream cheese and oreos in mixer until well blended. shape into 1" balls - i use my smallest cookie scoop. Chill for 30 minutes. melt chocolate chips and dip the oreo balls into the melted chocolate. I keep the chocolate over low in a double boiler so it doesn't harden. I used about 1 and a half bags this time, but it just depends on how much chocolate you want around the truffle. Chill until hard. (a few hours)

ENJOY!

Day 19

Today is your letter to Santa - yes a letter from you - a grown up. I have a friend who wrote a wonderful Christmas letter to Santa a few years back, I wish I could share it with you - it was so heartfelt and wonderful to hear her wishes for Christmas that year.

I stayed up til midnight last night making pjs for the girls for Christmas. With a friends help, I finished both pair of pj's, pj's for me, pillowcases for the girls and she made two sets of pj for the girls build-a-bears. Once I finish the handstitching stuff, I'll get a picture of them to share. I'm so very excited about them!

Day 18

Today's theme is "that special Christmas present" be it one you've been given or one you'd like. I have a friend who asks for a certain necklace every year, she has yet to get it - would that be her special present????? What's yours? I'd love to see your answers.

I'm off to make the Christmas p.j.'s this morning, hoping to get them done in time for Christmas, I'm not a very quick sewer!

Once again, I'm behind

wow- I missed the whole weekend! It was a crazy busy tiring weekend, and i'm really glad my little one slept in this morning so I could too.
Day 15 is Christmas Music, - what is your take on it?
Day 16 is "What are you grateful for this year?"
Day 17 is "The Christmas things I love"

Yesterday was little dude's birthday and we had a nice quiet day with family. Tonight we are headed to "Jump Planet" and she requested a special ice cream cake. Another full day today!

Day 14

Day 14 - the people you spend Christmas with. Usually for us it is family, but this year we will be visiting some friends.

This is a horrible picture, but having given them all away and not checked the photo before I did that, this is what I have. I used Lizzie Anne Designs tea cup and marvy punches. We made 60 of these for the people who work with the children at church - yes we have 60 teachers and leaders for all those kids. It was fun to make. The back of the tag says "to special friends so dear, wishing you a cup of cheer! Thanks to whoever came up with that!

the journal

So, between my responsibilities at church and getting ready for Christmas, the journal is not getting done. The journaling is getting done, just not put on pages. I'm hoping this weekend to have some time to catch up, but who knows how the weekend will go! I'll still post the daily propmts, and soon have some pages to show.
Day 12 is Now & Then - what is different.
Day 13 is Describe your ideal Christmas