Day 2 of learning to be a fun mom. 🙂 Today was “Jeff Day”. Since his birthday falls on a 17th, today was his special day. I have lots of fun pictures I planned to post, but (I always have some technology hang-up, don’t I?) I don’t have my computer this week, and I have no idea how to upload computers on Jeff’s computer so just pretend like you see some really cool pics. I made Jeff a big sign/placecard with “Daddy’s the BEST!” and he sat at the special seat. Of course he was gone all day, and he actually had a rather hilariously awful day, but we made the special crepes he requested, and even served them on the bright red “You are special today” plate (does everyone have one of those?), and gave him the bright red “You are special today” cup. Heidi sat on his lap and gobbled up almost all his crepes. That girl can eat.
But the fun part of our day was a new Christmas book. A friend gave us Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree. My kids were enchanted. We ended up reading it 12 times before Daddy got home, and Dutch even constructed a green Lego Christmas Tree and made it too tall so he had to “cut off” the top. It has no Christian message, but it is just such a sweet book. I can see how it would be so fun, with little kids, to every year cut off the very top of your tree and put it outside so that some little animal can take it home to his family.
Other than that it was just a fun day of cooking and playing. Tea, a toasty warm kitchen full of goods, happy children running around, and a new treasured Christmas book. It was a good day.