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A great Advent Activity for your family! Order my Jesse Tree Ornament Tutorial today and create your own holiday tradition. Find out more here.
Sew this hood style animal hat to keep your child warm this winter. Purchase pattern here.
Easy to make mermaid costume pattern for American Girl Dolls or 15" Bamboletta. Purchase pattern here. |
On Friday we made the long trek to the Grandville Mall. The roads on that side of the state we very snowy and icy, but thankfully Steve has equipped our van with snow tires. Steve had the day off, so of course he was driving and I wasn't worried. Some people weren't so lucky . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: Visit with Santa
On Thursday Lorelei and Allan made simple reindeer ornaments. We glued craft sticks in a triangle shape and let the glue dry. Then later we painted them with brown paint and let that dry. The third step was to glue on a red pom-pom nose and googly eyes. Then we tied a ribbon on . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: Reindeer Ornaments Today we made bird seed pine cones. I lucked out and we were at the end of the Peanut Butter jar, so I let the kids dig in with their knives by themselves multiple times and didn't worry about dirt or sap from the pine cones getting in the peanut butter. We had quite . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: Bird Seed Pinecones Steve stayed home from work to get wagon loads of corn for the burner. Uncle Andy and Aunt Kara come by on their way back from Maddie's appointment at U of M hospital. While Andy helped Steve outside, Kara and I visited as the kids played together. In the afternoon the kids and I . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: Letters to Santa Today we read the Legend of the Candy Cane, which really was of no interest to either of the kids. Then they each decorated an embellishment snowman I had and then we glued them to paper and colored snow around them. Again, I forgot to take a picture of it, but they had fun . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: Christmas Movie Monday The kids slept a little late this morning. As soon I heard Lorelei moving around upstairs she was up and running down the steps. She ran straight to the fireplace to check the stockings, "Yup, he's been here." I told her we had to wait until Allan came down. Of course she headed upstairs . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: St. Nick
Today we all headed over to Grandma Edith's and Papa's house for some Christmas baking. It is always chaotic and messy. Of course the kids love it and they ate at least 5 cookies apiece, not to mention the sprinkles they picked out of their bowls and the frosting they licked off of their . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: Christmas Cookies On day 4 we learned about angels. Lorelei still likes to refer to them as fairies. Somehow I forgot to take a photo of them making the angel ornaments and coloring the angel picture. I did however get a picture of Charlie who had crawled under the tree after a ball. For a few . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: Angels Today our Advent door revealed that we were to hang our stockings. Lucky for us we have a huge fireplace mantel on which to hang our stockings. Lorelei was able to hang hers on the hook herself, but I had to lift Allan up to reach his hanger. The mantel gets more full every . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: The Stockings Were Hung We set up our Fisher Price Nativity set for the kids. I am still working on getting mine set up. (Baby's can put a real damper on your schedule each day.) Lorelei is old enough now that she remembers things from past years and she remembered the Nativity set. We also read our book, . . . → Read More: Advent Activities: The Nativity |
 I was a Design Manager in the scrapbooking industry until the birth of my first child. I then turned freelance designer, crafter and stay-at-home mom. I reside in MI with my husband and our four kids. Find out more about me here.    
  
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