cricket got a new cape as well,
i love how this one turned out!
she is standing on the seat of an old stage coach. she wanted to ride inside but they have it taped off till the state of emergency is over 🙁
cricket got a new cape as well,
i love how this one turned out!
she is standing on the seat of an old stage coach. she wanted to ride inside but they have it taped off till the state of emergency is over 🙁
since there was another fresh fall of snow last night, the girls went outside and made snow angels.
the boys found to their dismay that their winter jackets were in the wash (don’t ask 😉 ), but meg gave them a bunch of giant pompoms and let them have an indoor snowball fight. emrys drew the short straw and had to use the girls pink table as his fort, so he covered it with a blanket so no one could see.
some of the shots went pretty wild, no real harm done though,
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the girls spent the afternoon making wrapping paper chains
first they cut up strips of double sided wrapping paper
then worked in pairs to make long chains
crystal and annalise made thin ones
cricket and dovey made fatter ones
meg was up late tonight making aprons and oven mitts for this weekends’ baking marathon
today was “make a gift day” so all the kids scattered to various rooms and got to work
kiri and eilidh made memory match games for the littles
cricket taught the little girls beading so they could make bracelets for meg and the big girls
they all managed to string the beads, but needed a little help tying the knots
the boys made clay ashtrays trinket bowls out of oven baked clay
Continue reading a bjd christmas – dec 18 – make a gift day »
the girls happily spent the afternoon making giant poster paper snowflakes
noah and emrys quickly got tired of sitting, so volunteered to take the paper scraps out to recycling
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for the past couple weeks the kids have been doing extra chores to earn grocery vouchers that they can redeem for pantry items to give to the food bank, today meg put out some big boxes and the kids put stuff in throughout the day…
apparently meg underestimated the kids desire to help others
time to go shopping again
Continue reading a bjd advent – dec 16 – hampers for the food bank »
the third sunday of advent cricket and elwin
The third candle symbolizes joy and is called the “Shepherd’s Candle.” To the shepherd’s great joy, the angels announced that Jesus came for everyone, even humble, unimportant people like them, too.
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meg went off the the post office to mail the letters the kids wrote yesterday,
while she was there she picked up a load of parcels full of christmas surprises,
the kids entertained themselves playing board games
Continue reading a bjd advent – dec 12 mail and board games »
today was a charity day again, a day when the kids focus on giving, rather than what they will get for christmas
meg ordered cards from a few of her favorite charities as gifts for friends and family.
the kids had all decided together that they would write encouraging notes to our troops who would be away from their families this year, so they each picked a favorite place to sit and got busy thinking of what to say
the girls are writing very sweet letters
the boys decided to write their letter together, i think meg better check this one before she sends it!
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