Although before starting i feel compelled to add a picture of my John Lennon style Santa 😆
I will have to change his eyes 😆
Do feel i should add extra pictures of the stained glass windows (with guest appearance of one done by visiting Uncle Rich, who insisted on Aussies style red soil instead of grass or snow 🙄 Note all our lovely snow out the back 🙂
Bottom left of above is Amelie’s one with poo streaks – everyone else copied 🙄 She maintains it is in homage to the penguin NattyEm bought Josie, who Josie immediately named Penguin Poo, for reasons i have never worked out 😆 *I* think Amelie is a very bad influence on my other, more easily suppressed, children 😆
It was really lovely to have my brother here – he made an amazing snowman with them all, using up all the snow in garden, which the weather then obligingly replaced. I do hope this lasts till Xmas Day – it is just so Christmassy!!!!
Various foamy magnets got made, but they’ve got sprinkled over the house.
And Fran with almost no adult help and some assistance from Maddy, worked really hard on a holy wreath.
The holly was a bit short on berries so i’ve added a few fake ones today.
Really ought to edit the bin out of that photo!!
I’ve put up this rather gorgeous light tree tonight. I’d planned it as a grown up thing but in the end decided it would warm the cockles of all our hearts more if it displayed their coloured in decorations 🙂
Max was a little more restrained than last year when buying the tree this year, so we don’t feel like we’ve just walked through the back of the wardrobe into Narnia – much more manageable and lots of fun (once i’d done the lights!) to decorate!
Still got lots of creative things left to do – guess we didn’t do the planned educational topic but plenty of other stuff has happened along the way and we’ve had a lovely couple of weeks 🙂
Beautiful crafty things and as to the last sentence – I think that’s how Christmas should be 🙂
Me too – i think the bottom half of that list was just a sop to my conscience and i never had any intention of doing them!
Really nice to see all the crafty stuff and love the festive pics.
But your girls did at least one thing from the bottom half of your list. Christmas music definitely featured on Wednesday 🙂 All of them heard various styles of it and the biggest two worked out how to play their parts of traditional carols on the bells. Surely that merits a tick?! Next year, though, your list -has- to include teaching them my repertoire of carols as we didnt seem to know any of the same ones 🙁
Have been very remiss on that; will do better next year!
Those crafts look awesome. Hope we will be that organised next yr to do some. You and the children have done a great job!