Ramble On

Writing this entry from Microsoft live writer. We’ll see how this goes. I’m not really sure how to work it.

Back after a much needed blogging break. Christmas has been packed up, new years has passed and my family is gearing up for some big changes this year. I'm praying that we can meet them head on and with grace. I'm nervous and excitied at the same time. Trying to keep things in persective too, since we all know things change change so fast. Lord see us through this!

Tonight we went to see the Christmas lights drive through display a couple of towns over from where we live. The kids loved it. I loved it. It was so nice to get out and do something that wasn't too spendy (10 dollars for the car load) to spend time together.

Finally finished the stockings for my friend's family. They are even stuffed with goodies and packed up into a box and ready to go. Amazing. Hoping to ship them out very soon, however, I don't like to make firm plans like that (like giving an actual date I'll ship them) because well, I have three kids, the stomach flu is going around, it's winter, and I have a chronic illness. So...we do things day by day around here.

I've actually never made these before I must have gotten the wrong type of applesauce cause these took a heck of a lot more cinnamon that I thought it would. I'm very happy with them though. I painted them with white paint so they would look like they were frosted cookies. I had the idea to make food ornaments to decorate a tree in the kitchen.


When we happened to get a Rosemary tree I was super excited since it went with my theme. So I dried out some thinly sliced orange slices in the oven over night and hung those along with the apple sauce ornaments on the rosemary tree. I still had a little bit of the brown ribbon left over (that I also used on the popcorn wreath) and tied that on the top. I'm sorta in love with it, and it smells really good!

These are actually random boxes we had around the kitchen. Some cereal boxes, granola bar box etc.
I cut off the "flaps" wrapped them leaving about 2 inches overlap at the opening, tucked that in, punched some holes and threaded a ribbon through. Much cheaper than buying gift bags, and much more sturdy!

The kids were thrilled, candy canes for breakfast!!!