Jan. 9, 2009 - Christmas picture

Thought you would like to see a 'family' picture of the Small's from this past Christmas.

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Dec. 22, 2008 - Yummy Christmas snack!

Quick and easy!  Very Christmasy!

This is the larger tree - used 2 tubes of crescent rolls.  And below is after putting on a glaze.

Here is a smaller tree we did, with just 1 tube of rolls.  Applied the same glaze.

Here are the instructions.

Unroll a tube of crescent rolls and seal the perforations.  Melt about 1 Tbsp of margarine and brush it on the dough.  Mix cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle over the butter.  Reroll the crescent rolls and cut.  We cut each tube into 10 sections, but they could be cut a little narrower if you wanted.  Arrange them into the shape of a tree and bake until brown.  Let cool and apply a powdered sugar and milk glaze. 

We colored the glaze green and sprinkled some red sugar on the top. 

My mom applies a thin glaze (uncolored) and puts jarred cherries in the center of the sections for red balls. 

You could get very creative with the decorating, or leave them plain.

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Dec. 17, 2008 - On the twelfth day of Christmas...

... my true love gave to me, 12 drummers drumming.

We talked today about the 12 points of the Apostle's Creed.  The boys then finished up their 12 Days of Christmas books by coloring a nativity picture for the last page of the book. 

Then we began reading this book.  Since it goes through the alphabet and gives history and background for each subject, we are going to stretch out the reading throughout the rest of this week.  For example, the C stands for Children, Chimney, Candles, Cookie Crumbs, Christmas tree, Christ Child, and Cards.  The book then explains that Christmas was originally written Christes Maesses in the Old English, meaning Christ's mass.  Candles symbolize the Christ child who is called "light of the world" and what tradition the candle has.  There is some background on carols that were sung around the year 129 and by 1200, monks sang carols to reenact the nativity story.  Then it tells a little about Charles Dickens who wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843 and finally that Louis Prang printed the first Christmas card in the US in 1874. 

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Dec. 16, 2008 - My gingerbread house

We were finally able to get to the store today and get more powdered sugar to make a final batch of frosting so I could finish my gingerbread house.  And since the weather is bad, we cancelled scouts tonight, so I had time to finish it up tonight.  Here are pictures of mine:

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Dec. 16, 2008 - On the eleventh day of Christmas...

... my true love gave to me, 11 pipers piping.

The eleven stands for the 11 faithful disciples of Jesus.  We made trading cards for each disciple to put in a folder book.

Then we read this book:

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