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I love baking,or at least the idea of baking. It’s just I am not that good at it. I wish I was,but most of the time stuff burns. Well today we made cookies. I guess they didn’t turn out too bad because the kids were eating them up. The enjoying making them,and then tasting them:)
Snicker Doodle cookies,and Chocolate Chip cookies
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During the Christmas season it is so easy for us to get all wrapped up in receiving rather than giving. So today we volunteered to deliver for Mobile Meals.
It was our first time,and I was little nervous about going to peoples homes. When we walked in first thing I noticed is that all of the volunteers were elderly. I mean if they can get out and do this everyday we should be able to make it through one day! The lady showed us how to pack our cooler. We were delivering 19 meals to 17 locations. That seemed like a lot to me. And the neighborhood we were going to was somewhere I have never been. It is not one of the nicer places in town. I will admit I was a little scared when I found out where we were going. Some one had donated poinsettias so we loaded those up too. When we got in the car we said a little prayer asking for God to use us as a blessing,and not to let my fear get in the way. Once we arrived in the apartment complex I never felt scared again. The kids loved knocking on the doors,and giving the sweet people their meal. The people loved seeing the kids too. It was definitely something we will be doing again.
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It is Christmas at my house today, well at least my side of the family. We were all excited to visit with my Aunt Mary since it has been almost 2 years since I had saw her. I cleaned all morning, wrapped presents,and cooked. We did a lot of appetizers,and desserts. My kind of dinner:) Too bad I didn’t take any pictures of it. We had a great time catching up,and bring with my aunt brought back memories of my childhood at Christmas. It also made me feel like my mom was here with us:)
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Outdoor ice skating in the south is really unheard of. So when I saw the advertisement for Ice on Main I knew we had to go. We tried a couple of weeks ago,and when we got there it was closed:( One of the machines that keeps the ice cold had broke. So we had decided to go ,and give it a try today. Of course 2 hours before we were going to leave it started raining. The kids were really looking forward to ice skating. We still headed to Greenville so we could eat at Smoke on the Water for my birthday.
Cornbread:)
Good southern food!
On your birthday you can pick which dessert you want for….FREE!
Jack Daniels Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie= heavenly!
So after dinner we still had to decide what we were going to do. I had posted something on Facebook,and someone told me about the Bilo center. They normally have hockey there this time of year, but they also had public skating. So that is where we were headed. The kids had a BLAST! They are already wanting to go back.
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This year we decided to let the kids draw names to see who they would buy a Christmas present for.
Kain drew Noah.
Noah drew Zoe.
Zoe drew Kain.
They spent a lot of time deciding what to buy one another within their budget. I think they all chose very well. They also wrapped each gift themselves.
Can’t believe that in a few days it will be Christmas!
I FINALLY wrapped a few presents!
