Cookies!
pamelamyers | December 9, 2018
Once again, my mom and I baked a million cookies for Christmas, and of course, when she could, Sam helped out. These are a few of her masterpieces. Now if I could only get her to actually eat the darn things….
Gingerbread House Time
pamelamyers | December 9, 2018
Last night we finished Sam’s gingerbread house! This is the first year we got adventurous and baked it ourselves. It turned out to be easier than I thought. We assembled it one night and then decorated it another. The cookie cutters I have are bigger than I remember, so the house was way bigger than the ones I generally buy. We had a hard time getting the roof to not make the house collapse, but Mark helped with some creative engineering, and it worked!
Once it was time to decorate, we all chipped in (as much as Sam would let us). She likes to do it herself most of the time.
She could decorate a house for hours with all the detail she puts into it.
I love this little gingerbread girl. What is KC you might ask? Oh, it’s her Kohl’s cash! Sam knows Mommy likes Kohl’s!
Go, Speed Racer Go!
This is her sledding hill, complete with gingerbread people on saucers.
Mark made this really cool merry-go-round, one of the few details we were allowed to add.
We had so many decorations because I am always buying them that Sam didn’t know what the heck to do with them all! Oh well, there is always next year.
Here are some pics of the various sides. I think she did an amazing job. (Don’t mind the huge crack in the roof…oops!)
Penny and Zach could not figure out what the heck we were doing, so, cats being cats, they had to investigate!
Lights, Lights and More Lights
pamelamyers | December 9, 2018
We made our annual trek into Philadelphia to see the Macy’s light show. I really didn’t know how we were going to make it because so many of our weekends were full, but Sam really wanted to go, so we went. We spent probably an hour and a half tops there though, no shopping, no lunch, just the Dickens village and the light show and we were outta there!
I can’t believe how big she is getting! This pic is from our first year there in 2012:
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It was a bit chilly waiting in the endless line for Dickens village (or the puppets, as Sam always calls them), so she borrowed GG’s sweater!
I cannot believe how big Sam is getting next to these doors now too! She used to be able to fit right through them!
The show was mobbed, as usual, so we stayed off to the side to get a better view.
See ya next year!
Seeing Santa…Again?
pamelamyers | December 7, 2018
I went out to dinner with a friend, and Mark took Sam to the King of Prussia mall. She was all dressed up in her finest holiday gear for spirit day at school, and while they were at the mall, Sam wanted to visit Santa again. Mark said there was no line, so they went! She told Mark, but not me, that she asked Santa for an Enchantimal this time, and she did not ask any other Santa she saw, and it is not on her list, so if she gets an Enchantimal, then this Santa is the real one. Last year she started asking me how Santa can be in so many places at one time and we talked about how every mall Santa is not necessarily the real one, Santa has helpers because he is so busy at the North Pole. But…you never know which of those Santas is the real one, so you better be on your best behavior. I guess she was trying to figure out if this was the real Santa or not. We’ll see on Christmas Day, Samantha!
Seeing Santa
pamelamyers | December 2, 2018
It’s time to see the man in red! While waiting in line, Sam posed with one of Santa’s reindeer – well, maybe not.
She always makes a list, but never wants to tell Santa everything on it. The only thing she asked for in person was a Wellie Wisher doll from American Girl. Let’s hope he reads her whole list!
Here is Sam’s entire list. It’s an interesting one this year! Here writing is much better now, but in case you can’t read it, she asked for:
To Santa
I want…
Scruff-a-Luv
The Music Sheet Jessica had 5 books (Jessica is her music teacher)
Willa the Wellie Wisher
The Long Glue Sticks the big ones GG had (this kid is obsessed with her glue gun)
Candy Buttons (ever since she found out that Necco went bankrupt she is in a panic)
A Better Camera that does not turn black in a good moment
Good doll hangers like the amish people (when we were in Lancaster at the shop run by the Amish, the doll clothes for sale were on really nice hangers)
Rubik’s cube
and others if I forgot
Love, Samantha
