I can't believe how quickly this year
has gone by! Winter Break will take
place during the two classes I am currently taking. It doesn't seem like it's been too long since
the last winter break. I know a few
months have gone by, but not 12! Not
even 10. Only one month left of 2017.
What the heck? How can the year have
gone by so quickly when there were so many spurts of activity that almost
seemed/felt endless (here and here for example)
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| Jenna painting ornaments |
Last year I had participated in a
posting class offered during winter break - students shared Christmas memories
and recipes. I remember one recipe for
salt dough ornaments, and made up some batch for family home evening, but
waited until yesterday morning to cut out the dough as the recipe suggested a
four hour baking time, and I knew I wouldn't want to be checking the oven after 8:00 pm let
alone 10:00 pm.
Thus yesterday morning Jenna and I
twisted candy canes and cut out various cookies from our cookie cutter
selection. The twisted candy canes did
not turn out as I had envisioned. Nor
did the gingerbread men I was hoping to look like decorated gingerbread man and
not what was supposed to be an incredible hulk and what I had seen as a missionary.
The ornaments are not finished. We all got tired of painting after a while (I
think Roland only painted two) and have put on a top shelf for another day -
only we need to hurry more quickly if we plan to send them out.
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Except for the deer, these are the ornaments that
I worked on. Will post them all when completed
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Jenna wants to go and see Coco. She will have to clean her room - whether we
see Coco or not. But we will definitely
NOT be seeing it if we don't see an improvement.
