HAVE A JOYFUL CHRISTMAS

Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas
...may your joy be great
and your worries small
and may you hold in your heart,
love for all!

A few gifts from my tree...

"the love of 

Christmas 

...and purple."

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

Our Christmas party with my daycare kids was a success

...a good time was had by all!

Usually,

there is at least one unwilling to sit 

for the Christmas group picture

but this year we managed 

to get all ten to pose...yea!

TWELVE TREATS OF CHRISTMAS

This year instead of the usual Advent craft with my day care kiddies consisting of "paper chains" or "numbered ornaments"  on the tree or "bells" on Rudolph's harness, we opted for something simpler...Twelve Treats Of Christmas. We traced our hands to make mitten shapes on old Christmas cards, cut them out and glued two mittens together leaving an opening at the top into which I slipped a piece of card with a treat of the day written on it. Treats ranged from a chocolate, a special story, a pencil, or  pack of crayons  to a game of Reindeer Pokey.

Today's treat  was...popcorn for lunch...with real butter! It's funny how many kids have never experienced making popcorn other than sticking a bag in the microwave. They enjoyed watching it explode out of the air popper and really wolfed it down while telling me how good it was...even better than what you get at the theaters.

Maybe next Christmas I will pop it in a pot on top of the stove just like we used to in the "olden" days! They should get a real kick out of that.

Popcorn

Put the oil in the pot

and you let it get hot

Put the popcorn in

and you start to grin.

Sizzle...sizzle...sizzle

...sizzle...sizzle...sizzle

POP!

Raffi