I have to love a weekend in December that was spent making toys, getting boys to and fro from play dates, playing elf and watching The Sound of Music! Our weather decided oh ya- silly me it is December and blew us some cold winds, but no snow this weekend. I was enjoying making some goodies, not being in a stores and then could not stop myself from falling asleep with the boys at bed time last night. At 11 I bolted out of bed realizing that I still needed to go to the grocery to get oranges, nuts, candy canes, and in hopes a couple gold dollars to fill the wood shoes that the boys faithfully had set out on the cobbler's bench, then we lit the lantern and read The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler's Sons.
Back to the bolting out of bed- ugh I did not want to head out to the store but I could not let down my boys! So I bundled up and headed out to the store getting there almost at midnight. I can only imagine how funny it must have appeared for this mom with a basket of oranges, nuts and peppermints- oh and a bag of cherrios to be asking if by chance the cashier had some gold dollars- have they not heard of St. Nicholas Day? Are they not prepared for moms who have fallen asleep that desperately need said supplies??
Well all said and done they had everything except the gold dollars and the boys sleep through me getting the shoes lovingly filled- now what about those gold dollars- here was the kink in my plan. Something about five dollar bills just is not as magical coming from a Goblin Dwarf King so they only thing I could think of at now 12:30- I switched out a gold dollar from their savings jar with each of the $5 bills- definitely a good trade in their favor but definitely have to try and do all of that much earlier next year!
The joy of hearing Jasper get up at 6:30 a.m. to wake up his brother this morning to see if King Laurin came was all that mattered! And the nuts make a wonderful thing for them to do while mama needed just a bit more sleep! Thank heavens for nut crackers! Silas and I had so much fun heading out to play elf to one of our Crafty Mama friends and leave a secret present- even if we did get caught! So cute! We came home to cutting more greenery left from the tree and adding berries from the woods when our sweet elf visited us leaving a lovely orange burlap bundle full of yummies that we enjoyed as we finished watching The Sound of Music with a cup of tea I drank with toast and jam!
Hope all of your weekends were lovely! Here are a few more pictures from ours! What a fun weekend playing elf- I have one more elf package to prepare for some lovely friends out of state to send with love- I think my ear got a little more pointy this weekend!
