Annual Christmas Banquet

We let the boys go up and pick out their own dessert. We weren't paying attention, but normally our rule is to start out with one dessert. We failed to remind the children of this rule. Joshua and Ishmael were reasonable.



Jeremiah was stone cold busted.

HAHAHAHA!!!

There was plenty of entertainment, but I have to say that little Joseph and Mary stole the show.

Cinnamon Ornament "Cookies"

I really love to make these with the kids. They smell so yummy.



Ingredients:
1 Cup Apple Sauce
1 Cup Cinnamon (2-2.37 oz bottles were close enough to a full measuring cup)
1 TBSP Ground Cloves
1 TBSP Allspice
2 TBSP craft glue

Mix in dry ingredients and then add apple sauce and glue. Easy Peasy.


Dust surface with cinnamon and roll dough out to a 1/4" thickness.


I put them in a sunny spot to dry. It takes a few days and you need to flip them. I think this way preserves more of the yummy smell. You can bake them in a low temperature oven if you are short on time.

I hung the kids on the tree and decided I wanted to make a string of them to hang over the "window" in the dining room/kitchen.

They're Finished!

Thanks to my very talented mother, all of my stockings are done just in time for Christmas!!!



I finished the final touches of the last one while she was here, and then she whipped them out like nobodies business!