A Taste of Winter

The calendar may say that it is not officially winter yet, but you could have fooled me!  With all the snow and cold weather, it feels like the Christmas season has started extra early this year.

As per tradition, we kicked off the holiday cheer at the Help Santa Toy Parade on Saturday.  It was not the same without Dad but we did our best to get as excited about the Garlic King, the Grinch behind bars and, of course, Santa as he always did.  This was the first year in a long time that we had snow for the parade.

The boys have also made their Christmas lists and mailed them off to Santa.  They are eagerly awaiting a reply.

We have also been busy in the kitchen whipping up some Christmas goodies.  Grandma and the boys have made fancy pecan turtle brownies and Seamus and I have made date squares and chewy ginger cookies.  They have all been packaged up and stored safely in the freezer for the holidays.

In addition, we have already watched the 1966 classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas, have been practising our Christmas tunes with Papa in the morning before school, have our advent calendars ready and waiting for December first,  and have begun Christmas crafting.  

We should be good and ready for the big day once it finally arrives!