On Christmas morning, before sunrise, the pitter patter of little feet running down the stairs and into my room woke me up.
The kids waited impatiently in the living room for everyone to get up, then devised a plan. Gladys climbed into a huge gift bag and Troy pulled it over to Glenn's usual spot in the living room. Unsuspectingly, and half asleep, he went to open his "gift" and all of the sudden a 10 year old girl pops up! Moral of the story-- beware of gifts in this household. :)
Troy has my gift giving skills, that is to say, he isn't very good at it. One example of this, is how he "shops" in other people's bedrooms for gifts. He went into Glady's room and took her belonging (a vinyl bag), and wrapped it up as a gift for Glenn.
And to teach Troy a lesson this year, Gladys went into Jean's room and "borrowed" a
bra to wrap up to give to Troy. Two bras actually, in two separate gifts. Troy wasn't sure what to think of receiving a bra. Then when he opened a second bra and after he thought about it for a minute, he thought it was hilarious. He exclaimed, "Oh boy, I got two bras and my BOOBS have not even came in yet!". We were all laughing so hard cocoa came out our noses. If nothing else, it made receiving a
"normal" gift extra special.
On Christmas Day, after opening gifts, the kids were busy as could be playing toys.
Troy had played out his own adventures.
Then decided to make cabins for Gladdie's Barbies to go camping in. He made and entire campground.
Gladys introduced her Barbies to their new home. She liked the homemade Barbie furniture too, btw.
Gladdie received a duct tape art set from Santa. She was busy into crafting for a good portion of the afternoon.
She is modeling some of the items she created out of duct tape-- a headband, glasses, and a belt:
Is my girl stylin or what!?!
Since it's the holidays, we had to bump up the security around here.
Troy stood guard at the front door, and occasionally preformed perimeter checks too.
Meanwhile, back inside, the crafting didn't stop with the duct taped items. Jean and Gladys made bracelets. (I'll show them soon, in newer posts.)
The kids had a really good Christmas.
Troy got a circuit board set from Santa.
It was one of the more unique gifts I have seen this Christmas. Building electrical projects kept him busy for hours.
All Christmas day we played; toys, games, pretend, crafts; we even baked cookies.
As I was mixing up the batter, Troy was learning how to make homemade snowflakes. A few bits of paper snowflakes in the cookie batter never hurt no one. ;)
So, after mixing it up, and making little balls, then they get rolled in pecans and thumb indented; like little pie shells.
They can be filled with any kind of jelly before baking. I used strawberry preserves on a most of them.
A few of them I left empty to fill with just cream cheese frosting after they finished baking. Some of them I filled with the preserves and then topped with a dot of frosting.
The cookies were a bit hit with family and friends that came to call.
Check it out, this one looks like a heart:
I found the recipe in one of those paper booklets circa 1980. I used real butter in place of the Parkay margarine and real vanilla in place of the almond extract.
Yum!
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