Another Christmas has come and gone. We were planning on spending a quiet day at home, but a friend of ours invited us for dinner so we spent the evening with her and her family. We spent Christmas Eve with our friends across the road from us and had a traditional Mexican Christmas Eve meal, which was great. Joshua and Anna spent the night playing with their friends and making some new ones too.
The kids enjoyed opening presents Christmas morning. We had to work to get them interested in doing it, though. All they wanted to do was to open up the doll and aquadoodle mat that they had received from our neighbours the night before. It made me realise that kids are happy with only one or two things. We don't have to go completely crazy and give them so many things. It's the simple things that bring them the greatest joy.
This was the first year that I spent baking cookies to give to some of our friends and neighbours. It's been a LONG time since I've spent any time in the kitchen baking, but it was tons of fun getting back into it. I made Chocolate cookies sandwiched with cream cheese frosting, Oatmeal butterscotch cookies (both of these compliments of Paula Deen's recipes), peanut clusters and chocolate covered pretzels. I made them into gift baskets and gave them out. It all turned out so much better than I expected!!
All in all we had a wonderful, laid back Christmas holiday. Now it's back to the New Year, new year's resolutions and preparing for next Christmas.
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