today was our cooking day! It actually started last night, with the kids making their annual gingerbread house! I got smart this year and let the sitter help them with this! ;) Dalton & I had some last minute things to do in Augusta, so Chelsey was so sweet to come keep them and let them make their house! She is so much fun and they really enjoy her keeping them!
Mary Dalton said this a.m. "That house was stressing me out! jackson was just sticking candy everywhere and it was all uneven! I just had to walk away!" ha! like mother, like daughter! :)
This a.m. we got up, made beds and started cooking! Both children were a HUGE help this year! I was shocked, but they were VERY good at helping me! We made sausage balls with cream cheese (got this off of pinterest and they are SO good), Christmas cookies (complete with LOTS of icing and sprinkles!), chicken salad, pimeto cheese, a tenderlion, homemade mac and cheese, a salad, Grapfruit Alaska, and a dip for a party tomorrow night! We were done and cleaned up by 12:00!
This was also the 1st year that they needed NO HELP rolling out dough, cutting the cookies or icing them!
Mary Dalton helping with the mac and cheese ~
Jackson with his RED nose ~ Elfie gave them both RED NOSES last night ~ Silly Old Elf!!! :D
Hard at work!!!
They requested we eat in the dining room tonight instead of the breakfast room. We don't eat in here often because the room has CARPET!!! who puts carpet in a dining room!?!? Someone without kids!!! They set the table and Mary D. even made place cards.
Decorating his cookies ~
They both said that they had lots of fun and it worked out perfectly since today is rainy and we are stuck inside! We are making a big pallet, having hot chocolate & cookies and watching Dolphin Tale this afternoon. Tonight, we are going to Communion at our church. This will be Jackson's 1st time so we are super excited about it!
Hard at work!!!
They requested we eat in the dining room tonight instead of the breakfast room. We don't eat in here often because the room has CARPET!!! who puts carpet in a dining room!?!? Someone without kids!!! They set the table and Mary D. even made place cards.
Decorating his cookies ~
They both said that they had lots of fun and it worked out perfectly since today is rainy and we are stuck inside! We are making a big pallet, having hot chocolate & cookies and watching Dolphin Tale this afternoon. Tonight, we are going to Communion at our church. This will be Jackson's 1st time so we are super excited about it!
1 comment:
The gingerbread house looks amazing. Me and my mum tried to make a gingerbread house the Christmas before last, but all we ended up with was a pile of gingerbread bricks and a mood which is best described as "Peace on Earth, goodwill to all men, apart from the swine who invented gingerbread houses."
It was certainly an experience though. :) We always try to have a go at something new each Christmas. This time, it was cookie mixes in jars. We weren't sure if it really was as easy as it looked, so we did a test run of two on my Mum's niece's boys. (It was as easy as it looked, but only one of them actually reached the boys, as their mum thought that one of them was for her) We'll be making more jars next year though. :)
But anyway, it's lovely that your children helped with the cooking. I remember helping my mum for as long as I can remember, it was all part of Christmas for us. And that hasn't actually changed. We've always made the Christmas cakes and Christmas puddings together, then I started to help with the sausage rolls and mince pies when I got a bit older. Then we started to make truffles, instead of buying all our Christmas chocolates, and now, we'll be making cookie mixes together.
I'll always want to be in the kitchen with my mum at Christmas. :)
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