Happy New Year! We had a comfortably quiet Twelve Days of Christmas and are finally getting used to the idea that we are back to lessons tomorrow after three weeks off. I didn’t get quite as much done as I was hoping to over our break (nothing new there!), but I did do a lot of pre-reading and a good amount of work for the CMEC, and I finished a first-round edit of Gianna’s first novel! (Well, it was the first round for me, but probably the third or fourth round for her. 😉 She finished it last spring and is determined to publish it this year.)
But we’re still celebrating the Christmas season here, so I thought I’d do a little catch up this evening with some snaps from our festivities over the past few weeks.
One thing I never thought we would have to do is go to Christmas Mass in a car…but such is life in California right now (and since March).
A beautiful sunrise greeted us on the way home, though!
Since we weren’t getting together with family at all this Chirstmas, the kids and I did a bit of extra special baking this year. These were our three favorite cookies! (My usual gingersnaps came in a close fourth.)
The kids did a secret santa swap this year. They were most excited about giving their sibling gifts! They all pitched in to get Emilia a gift…
A little wonky, perhaps, but everything tasted great. 😉 We did appetizers and pies for dinner and it was all so good. I have been working on my pie crust this year and the holidays are a good opportunity to practice! I should have made a couple more because these didn’t last long. 😉
