food, crochet, merriment
It’s funny–isn’t it–that these little ones don’t really question…
all the boxes and crates and tins that we carry in from wherever they’ve been hiding since last Christmas.
Do you think they wonder why this time of year we surround ourselves with sparkly stars, gingerbread, pine cones and tiny shepherds?
Or do you think, maybe…
that in their gentle angel hearts…
They just know?
This moment…
A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from our lives.
A simple, special, memorable moment.
A moment I want to pause, savor and keep close to my heart.
If you are inspired to do the same–leave us a link in the comments.
Happy weekend my dear friends.
Lighting the Menorah.
Telling the story of Hanukkah.
Preparing the feast.
Potato latkes–yum!
Family and friends.
Spinning the Dreidel.
The toy feast.
It was a lovely evening.
Thanks April and Jacob.
Isn’t it funny how you can put up all the Christmas decorations that have been stored away for months–but that magical, Christmas-y feeling doesn’t really sink deep into your bones until the lights go on? That’s when it really hits me that it’s Christmas time again. We’re still in the middle of the decorating at our place–but I’m excited to see the lights go up.
Don’t you just LOVE my sweet–and I mean SWEET–little Tom Turkey? Don’t you just want to gobble him up? Ha! Gobble. Get it? That’s a good one.
These little guys would make a great neighbor treat or think how great they’d look on the Thanksgiving table.
Fudge Mallows cookies
Iced Oatmeal cookies
Chocolate frosting
Swedish fish, candy corn and anything else you’d like to use.
You likely don’t need tons of instructions now–but just in case…
Cut the marshmallow cookies in half.
Glue it–with chocolate frosting–marshmallow side down, onto the oatmeal cookie.
Pipe a frosting “turkey body” straight up onto the marshmallow cookie.
Cut the Swedish fish up for feet, wings, beaks, eyes or whatever strikes you.
Give your little “Turkey-Lurkey” a face, beak, feet and a waddle from the decorettes and cut up Swedish Fish.
“Glue” tail feathers onto the back of the same cookies.
The little papooses will love this part…
and be quite proud of…
their little gobblers…
in the end. And rightly so.
Sweet little turkeys nearly too cute to gobble.
I said, nearly.
