Touches of Christmas

Every one in our house has been sick for the past week and it has made it really hard to get motivated to decorate for Christmas.  I was so excited a year ago when we moved in to decorate for Christmas in our new house but that excitement is gone.  I have done a couple things around the house but nothing like I had envisioned, we haven’t even put a wreath on the door.  Here are the couple touches of Christmas around our house.

Gate and Grandma made scented gingerbread ornaments.  They smell really yummy.  I made peppermint garland. Both are hanging on a tree in the playroom.

I started making this stocking for Gates when he was born.  I knew it would be time consuming but I was on maternity leave and figured I could handle it.  Well two years later I had only completed half of the stocking and had lost all motivation to complete it.  Luckily my mom was motivated by the fact that she looked as all the hard parts were done so she could easily finish it.  She did finish it but wants nothing to do with any project like this ever again.  Pour twins!

We put up our biggest tree ever, which was really exciting until it fell over after we had finished decorating it.  This is a picture of the tree after being decorated the second time missing a couple ornaments and no bows unlike the first go round.  It doesn’t look as pretty as it did at first but like I said earlier I am suffering from lack of motivation.

I started collecting the Wallace sleigh bells.  My mom has been getting them for me every year.  I actually have more but they are lost some where in our basement of disaster along with half of my Christmas china. Very Frustrating!

Some of the Christmas books we have.  We have a bunch more in Gates’ room for bed time reading.

My choo choo train.  I got this train when I was little from my grandparents.  It runs around the bottom of the Christmas tree and Gates is obsessed.

Hopefully I will get some more Christmas cheer going at my house soon.

 

Recipe for Ginger Bread Ornaments

1/2 cup of apple sauce

1/2 cup of cinnamon

2 Tb of glue ( I used Modge Podge, but be careful because it will glue cinnamon to the bowl and spoon that you use if you don’t clean it off right away)

Mix all together.  Roll out to 1/4 inch think.  Cut with cookie cutter.  Put holes in the top with a straw. Put on cookie sheet lined with wax paper and let sit for a couple days until dry.  Flip them over once a day.