Yesterday afternoon I had the kiddos help me dig out the Christmas decorations and the tree. I’m so thankful that we’ve used color-coded totes (dark green for Christmas) for our seasonal decor as this makes it much easier to find the necessary items.
The kids were a little upset that we didn’t put the tree up last night but they were super excited to find some early gifts on the table this morning.
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We are trying our best to get back into some of our routines and traditions around here but it’s been tough going with one thing after another. I do plan to do a little something special for St. Nicholas Day and we hope to get our tree up then as well. I had thought about doing our Polar Express Party on St. Nicholas Day but it falls in the middle of the week so that wouldn’t work out well for anyone right now.
We won’t be doing anything really spectacular but I’m sure the kids will be excited anyway. I did manage to snag a couple of bags of chocolate coins a couple of weeks ago too so I’m hoping they won’t have melted by the time St. Nicholas Day gets here.
I just wanted to post this in case anyone else wanted to try to do something a little extra special… maybe you will have a chance to grab some things over the weekend to start a new family tradition. Maybe we can schedule a quick drive around town to look at Christmas lights or something as well.
Here are a few posts from previous years:
We usually make Santa Pancakes and I think we did something a little different last year but I can’t remember what we did for sure as it was so crazy then.
Before you think that you couldn’t possibly pull anything like this off because something always goes wrong here’s another post about how our day really went on a previous St. Nicholas Day:
Whether you celebrate or not we hope you have a great St. Nicholas Day and we pray that you are blessed beyond measure during this holiday season!
No matter what kind of cookie you like, I think we have you covered!
Here are some of our most favorite cookie recipes:
5 ingredient chocolate chip cookies
Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Easy Sugar Cookies (We also added some butterscotch and some white chocolate chips to a few and they were delicious.)
Granny’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
Haystacks aka Noodle Cookies (2 versions here)
Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Wheels
Russian Tea Cakes (These are a holiday favorite here at our house.)
SOFT AND CHEWY GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES
If you need even more ideas be sure to check out this post:
We have been using these books as part of our Art/Music studies. They make lessons so quick and easy and the kids love coloring the pictures while they listen to the various music selections.
We will often add an educational video from YouTube if they seem to be more interested in a particular composer/song.
The one thing that I haven’t found was tests to go along with the lessons which aren’t absolutely necessary but sometimes I like to have them just to see if they are really paying attention to what we are learning about or not.
Here are the ones I’ve completed:
COLOR THE CLASSICS – GODLY COMPOSERS (September – October – November)
GODLY COMPOSERS – CHRISTMAS CAROLS (November – December)
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