december photo project

yea, so those last two of DPP? They aren't going anywhere, so I'm going to recover from my guilt-fest. Post them already, and move on to New Years posts and all that.

December 24

I thought that after the cardboard box "presents" under the tree picture, I ought to prove that the children were, indeed, well-endowed on Christmas morning. Much thanks to the paternal unit for doing pretty much all the wrapping. (Though I had to rewrap a couple that Marlowe "practiced" opening while we were waiting for Grammy and Poppy to arrive on Cmas morning)

I hereby declare today Swedish day.

My energy is waning, and the to-do list is getting short either by completion or deletion. I needed to keep today a little bit simpler. My main task for today was to make Swedish Coffee buns (after the Rayburn's recipe). My college roomie and I bonded over Christmas and our shared Swedish heritage. I love these coffee buns she made every Christmas. The secret is cardamom. I made a pile for our Christmas breakfast and sent a text to her. She was making them, too.

Ellis is into playing Santa. He rides around on his Tonka truck (aka Sleigh) delivering cardboard bricks (aka presents) to good little mommies and daddies. Then he carefully arranges them underneath the tree. Dress rehearsal?

I made peanut brittle for the first time!!

I didn't have a candy thermometer. And I've never really made candy. So it took about three tries and lots of drops in a cup of water to get the right temperature. All the recipes that tell you to boil for a certain number of minutes are just garbage! It's actually a mix of nuts and a few raisins.

Thankful for a trunk full of groceries.

Let the feasting begin!!

Also thankful for this guy:

A quick handmade gift. I got some a square piece of fleece (about 56" square--fleece is wider per yard than average cotton). Then I appliqued the hearts and snowflake on it. And fringed the edges. A nice throw for C's aunt.

Speaking of Marlowe and ornaments. He has to say "hi" to all his friends in the ornament aisle of Target every time we go there.

Whoops. Got really behind on posting. But I have a bunch of pictures. So here's my catch-up.

I had to use this day to share one of my new favorite ornaments. This beaded T. Rex that we got at the Natural History museum in NYC over Tday weekend. Or, as Marlowe says, T. Wex.

The sign says it all.

December 15= D Day!!!

The due date for the first two of my grad school applications. The next two are Dec 31 and Jan 15, but will be considerably easier to get in, because all the paperwork is in order now. It took a ton of time making sure every jot and tittle were just right. Here's hoping for success!