Well Jingle the elf apparently got into the spirit of things this morning, and here he was this morning on Madison's keyboard, doing a bit of a raisin jam with about eleven California raisins. Daddy has held on to these guys since the 1980's, I think. They came from Hardee's, and I remember going to get fast food once a week in order to pick up a new raisin. Yep, that's dedication!
Not long until Christmas, huh? As mentioned earlier, Santa is done with Madison's gifts, so that's okay. Also, the family gifts too. Still, we have a tiny bit of shopping for each other, but we're largely done there. The missing elements this year though: Christmas cards. We're receiving a few in the mail, but nowhere near as many as before. Part of this is the economy and the Post Office: it simply costs a lot to send so many cards, and it is much easier to send Christmas wishes for free by way of the internet and social websites. You can even send pictures that way too.
We prefer the old fashioned way, as it's just great to get a nice card in the mail. But we didn't have time to do that this year for everyone else, which is a bummer. Maybe we can get something together for a post-Christmas "Happy Holidays" card. We'll see...
Meanwhile, Daddy came earlier from work today, and actually got to see Madison for a bit before bedtime. She actually had lots of gingerbread house fun today at school, which means at least we didn't miss out on making one this year, as today at school she made TWO. Yes, she made one during class hours, but her after school cooking class had her making ANOTHER one on top of that. Now these aren't anything as complicated as our usual attempts, but they do count as gingerbread houses. You'll get to see a picture tomorrow, because something tells me Jingle is very tempted to mess with it!
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