Dreaming of a White Christmas...

Rain, rain, go away...

It's all melting! Melting! Ahhhhh!

All our beautiful snow is melting and we're being pummeled with rain and high winds. So much for a white Christmas! It's supposed to freeze later (oh yay... not!) but we won't get any real accumulation. Just lots of ice.

Just in time to go over the river and through the woods to Grandma's house tomorrow... (it actually is over a river - the Rouge River - which smells like... well, like the Rouge River. You really have to be there. It's not pleasant.) Then Christmas Day we'll spend with my family at my sister's, because she's got the most room.

I still have to make Banana Split Cake to take to my sister's. My brother-in-law's special request. Twenty minutes of mixing. Twenty minutes! Thank god for my Kitchenaid. And Neiman Marcus Cake to take to my in-laws'. I'm using lemon cake mix this year. Michael loves lemon. Plus Jello and Santa cookies. Why am I always in charge of dessert? Like I need more bowls and spoons to lick clean? (and wash!?)

Next time I'm going to volunteer to bring cans of crescent rolls!

Thursday Thirteen #14: Thirteen Family Christmas Traditions

13 Family Christmas Traditions

1. Oranges in the bottoms of our Christmas stockings. The kids love this tradition. I love it because it keeps that "stocking" shape and they eat it for breakfast!

2. Using the same wrapping paper for each child. This eliminates the need for name tags (hate those things!) on gifts from mom and dad, because each child has his own wrapping paper and knows which gift is his.

3. Setting out the Santa cookies and milk on Christmas Eve. Doesn't everyone do this?

4. Leaving carrots for the reindeer. In the morning, there's always one left with a "reindeer bite" out of it!

5. Santa's boot-prints by the fireplace. More proof that Santa really exists!

6. A letter from Santa. He leaves one every year for the kids, right by the milk and cookies. Nice of him to take the time, considering all he's got to do on Christmas Eve, isn't it?

7. Reading "T'Was The Night Before Christmas" before the kids go to bed on Christmas Eve.

8. Opening one present on Christmas Eve - it's always Christmas pajamas for them to wear to bed so pictures on Christmas morning won't reveal that we normally put them to bed in old t-shirts with moth holes.

9. Going to see Santa - to get the "Santa picture" and to ask Santa for what we want for Christmas.

10. Santa always leaves "Lifesaver Storybooks" in the stockings

11. Stockings have to be opened first, before we start presents

12. Presents are opened one at a time, and we take turns, so we can all appreciate each gift.

13. Finding the "Christmas Pickle" ornament - every year Santa leaves a small gift for the child who finds the Christmas pickle hidden in the tree.

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