Happy Hanukkah!
Tonight was our third night of celebration. We've had a pretty good day. This afternoon, the children and I tried out a new cookie recipe. Thanks to Cornings at Home, we had a great recipe for Butter Cookie Snowmen.
These turned out wonderfully. The children and I all participated in mixing and making the dough. We shaped all the dough into the individual parts. Then we began constructing the snowmen. I let the children do most of the constructing part. However, I did make a couple. It was really neat! We were tickled at how the first batch turned out. One of the children said, "It worked!" Thanks Cornings at Home for a great recipe. This will be one that will surely make it to our holiday baking tradition this time of year. I took pictures of our baking and hope to share those with you in the next couple of days. We don't have a good working digital camera. So I am taking pictures with our regular camera and then we have to get the pictures put on a CD in order for me to be able to upload them. I'm hoping we can get our next roll of film developed tomorrow.
Tonight, we lit our candles and hubby said the blessings. We had our meal. After our meal was done and dishes cleaned up, we played dreidels. I won both games tonight!! Go Mommy, go Mommy, go Mommy! LOL
After our game of dreidels, the children got to perform a recital. Last night they both wanted to play some things for my hubby and I on their keyboards. So we told them to practice throughout the day today and we'd let them have a recital tonight. This evening, they both got to have a turn playing things on their keyboards for Daddy and Mommy. After they finished, I read our story for tonight. I read one of the sections from a little book called The Eight Nights of Hanukkah. We let the children each have a snowman cookie to eat while I read.
Let me share what our candles represented tonight. The shamash candle still represented God. The first two candles still represented Adam and Eve. God walked and talked with Adam and Eve. But then sin entered the world. Our third candle represented sin. We blew out the shamash candle because when sin entered the world, God's light to Adam and Eve (as well as mankind) was darkened. I hope you will come back again tomorrow night to find out what our next candle represents!
Until tomorrow night...
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