Christmas Preparations

Okay, so it's Christmas Eve...are you ready? I think I am...I have some goodies to deliver to a few friends and I want to grab some last-minute groceries so that's what my plans are for the day! Then we have a family Christmas to go to. 

I've been decorating a bit more seeing the kids are getting older and I can put more stuff out without it them tearing it all down! This is the desk at our front desk for all our Christmas cards...

 ...and the little tree with our Sesame Street decorations! Thank you Good-Will for my $1.50 tree!

 So this year I bought a gingerbread house for the kids to do...well, after about 6 tries, we finally got it put together...and the kids went to twon on decorating it!! Trenton's side is a little more neat than Miss Jocelyn's!!

I did the front! And added the marshmallow snow-fort down the side of the house!

This year for our Jesus Present, we decided to make cookies and deliver them to the residents at Conestoga Crest. The Jesus present was started by my parents and now I do it with my kids. Usually it's a devotion book or a Veggie Tale movie but this year I wanted to start doing service projects with the kids. Eventually one day, I'd like to go to the House of Friendship and do a meal for the homeless people! 

So, this is the kids, decorating the bags for the cookies. Trenton is writing his name and Jocelyn's name on each bag (We have 35 to do!).  He'll REALLY know how to write his name and Jocelyn's name by the end! Jocelyn got to put the stickers on each bag. And I stamped them with "Jesus is the reason for the season". 

I hope the kids will learn that Christmas isn't just about Santa and getting gifts but also for sharing their wealth and helping others who maybe don't have as much as we do. The kids are really on board with this! It's great to see!!

Here's a sample of the bag! I'm so proud of my munchkins!

Wishing everyone a very Merry CHRISTmas! I hope you have a great day with family and friends and food and fellowship!