It's Time for Some Construction!

One of the activities the young man ( I have to stop calling him "little boy"  ) enjoys over the holidays is Decorating and Putting Together Gingerbread Thingies, be they houses, trains, reindeer and sleighs or villages.  He is content even if we only used Graham Crackers.

This year, though, we had a Kit that I had bought end of the season last year, and still held up quite well!

Between the two of us, I think we did a fabulous job :)

We left it in the big sheet pan to dry overnight before we would attempt to put it all together.

Arranging all the pieces on there in itself was one of those Tetris Miracles of the Season.

Frosty Field in The Morning

... with a Brilliant Blue Cloudless Sky.

It's nice to walk outside in the stillness of the morning in the country, where the sounds of traffic are waaaaaay off and barely audible. A time of quiet contemplation before the rest of the gang wakes up. :)

My Favorite Christmas Song of the 2023 Season.

I first heard this on The Graham Norton Show.

It was quite the Star Studded Episode, what with Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Timothy Chalamet, AND CHER!

Since then, I've been a little bit obsessed with DJ Play A Christmas Song, getting my steps in at the computer as I stand and work, and side stepping and dancing.

My OTHER go-to Stand and Work, and Side Stepping and Dancing Video? 

THIS one. ( Played at 1.2x speed tho ) :P

It's Gingerbread Cookie Day!

Love as I would, to want to relax during the weekends, there is always the "Prepare School for Next Week" banner looming over me constantly, besides The Daily Grind.

I DID eke out some time to bake Gingerbread Cookies with the lovely boy, tho :) 

We baked them on the lower end of the suggested Time To Bake, and they were pretty gooey good.. YUM!

Ye Olde Coal Shoppe

The hubs found this hidden away among some things, and thought we should display it.

Our One and Only Christmas Building and Not Quite A Christmas Village.