Since CHRISTmas is right around the corner, we decided to watch the Polar Express as part of our family movie night. I kept reading about how others had made a fun routine out of it by everyone wearing pjs, drinking hot chocolate, and eating cookies. I decided to make ours a little more special by creating tickets based upon the polar express party pack that I found online. I printed out the tickets on some light blue paper. I cut out the tickets and glued them to brown cardstock. I then took a small hole punch and punched out a…
Tag: Holiday Bliss
Sewing: Christmas Pajamas
Posted in Homemaking
Last year’s CHRISTmas pjs were such a huge hit, that Munchkin requested that I make the pjs again this year, but she wanted them to be long shorts instead of pants this year. (Due to our warmer winter weather, the pjs get more use if they are shorts rather than pants.) I’m just pairing the board shorts with plain t-shirts for easy, comfy pjs. I had picked up the material last year after Thanksgiving, but never got around to making the additional pjs bottoms as planned. That worked out okay as now I had just the right amount of fabric…
Cleaning and Christmas Music
Posted in Family, and Homemaking
Today, Munchkin and I focused on some deep cleaning/organizing around the house. You know those stash and dash cleanings you do before company comes over? Well, maybe you don’t do that, but around here, we do. (We’re getting better though. **grin**) Somehow, half that stuff seems to stay in the closet/storage area, and it keeps building up. That’s what we were tackling today. One by one, we brought bags of things down to the living room and went through them. We listened to music and watched movies while we worked. We still have more work to do. I’m not sure…
Mary Did You Know?
Posted in Christian Life, and Holidays
Can you imagine angels coming and talking to you? Can you imagine being a young, unwed woman who just found out that you are going to be giving birth to the prophesied Messiah? Mary had probably heard about the Messiah’s coming all of her life, but never, even in her wildest dreams, could she have imagined that she would be the mother of the Messiah. Even though she was, most likely, overwhelmed by the thought of giving birth as an unwed mother and being the mother of the Savior of her people, she gracefully accepted the Lord’s will for her…