We keep truckin’ through the holiday season

This week was the “easiest” of the Advent activity weeks. I sat here trying to remember what we did for on Saturday and just could not remember for a solid five minutes. It turns out the activity I had planned was not available (I thought a festival was going on, but I missed it by a day) so we made peppermint fudge and wrote letters to Santa (Henry did, with my help, but Spencer refused … I’m not sure what to do with that) and went to an ugly sweater party (in cheesy Christmas t-shirts). Sunday was making Christmas candy day, but after my toffee exploded on my kitchen I was pretty much done with that.

Monday – read a Christmas book (Spencer read Charlie Brown’s Christmas and Twas the Night Before Christmas to his brother and I melted a little)

Tuesday – have gingerbread pancakes for dinner (admit it, I’m a genius. Paired with goat cheese scrambled eggs, bacon and French 75s)

Wednesday – have a Christmas treat – this worked out perfectly because Influenster sent a bag of candy cane Hershey kisses that came in the mail Wednesday.They were well received.

Thursday – watch a Christmas movie. We watched The Santa Clause, which takes me directly to my brother’s childhood because he was so obsessed with that movie that we watched it several times a week for years, sometimes several times in the same day.

So tonight/tomorrow is a big one. We try to do one special thing a season. Usually, we go to Rockapella but this year we decided against it because the kids fell asleep last year and I’m not super happy that they moved it from Tampa Theatre (even though the new location is also gorgeous). But we’ve decided to take the kids instead to ICE at the Gaylord Palms. I’m excited; I’ve never been. We’ve got a hotel in town for the night, and tomorrow we’ll see the Christmas lights and the carolers at Disney/Epcot, and meet up with Tara and Jen and all the internet children. This weekend is going to rock.

In other, not Christmas news … nope, I don’t have any non-Christmas news, I don’t think. We are consumed. My cousin is graduating college and we’ve got his grad party on Sunday, and also I’m a walking Target advert today and I’ve not been so comfortable at work in maybe my life. Although slightly weirded out because I do not leave the house in non-pants. These are definitely non-pants.