Christmas is coming...

 We got the tree up the day after Thanksgiving, but the rest has been slowly appearing.  If you look closely you can tell the bottom of the tree is rather sparse...kind of a necessity with a one year old in the house.  Though she is getting pretty good about not touching it.  You can also see our new wrestling mat red rug.  We all love it.

 The other "tree" on the table is our Jesse Tree, as we do Advent Jesse Tree devotionals. They start at Creation and trace the story of Jesus from the beginning through Christmas.  We have printed out, laminated (ie very simple and kid friendly) ornaments for each day to hang on the tree.  This is a repurposed "tree" (sticks in a wine bottle)...it was our Thankfulness tree we used around Thanksgiving and was immediately transformed for December.  Still LOVE these stockings I got off Taobao from Pottery Barn kids two years ago.

 And we made cookies on Saturday.  Saturdays are a long day for me...Chris is usually gone most of the day and evening and while I know we do not have traditional weekends, it still feels like it should be.  So i decided we will do some Christmas activity every Saturday this month and we started with a small batch of cookies and made salt dough ornaments and painted them.

 Yum!

 Poor Austin had another migraine today...kept him home from school and he threw up tonight ...off the top of his bunk.  He was trying so hard to not throw up on his bed but couldn't make it down the ladder...unfortunately though from that height it ...well...went everywhere. I will not describe anymore, but it was a long clean up.

Lucy's contribution was eating cookies (unfrosted ones for her). I think it is safe to say she liked it.