December Daily - December 9

This is the December 9 assignment from the Holidays in Hand class I took from Jessica Sprague.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.  ~ Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol

What is your favorite Christmas book?  I don't have just one.  What I love are the wonderful pop-ups of Robert Sabuda (his Christmas pop-ups are all white with a touch of silver) and the wildly colorful books of Mary Engelbreit.   I bought Elizabeth a Robert Sabuda book the Christmas before she was born.  One of my very favorites is a little board book that my mother gave Annie for Christmas 2005 (I would say "three days after she was born" but we did Christmas with my family on December 17 that year because we thought I'd be coming home from the hospital on Christmas day).  The book is Who's Coming to Our House and is such a sweet little story of how the animals readied their stable for visitors.  My kids have loved that book and love that they know who the "visitors" will be before we get to the end of the book (Mary & Joseph). 

The photo today is of the spines of several of my favorite Christmas books.   I haven't downloaded from the camera yet.

Our "do" today was to work on AWANA verses, making certain the girls were ready to say them tonight.  And then tonight, they'll go to AWANA.

We made green, red and white cupcakes today for Annie to take to Cubbies tonight.  Very Christmasy and festive in their red, white and green swirl cupcake liners.  Bitsy was so excited about them.  We made white cake mix according to the package directions, divided the batter into thirds, then used Wilton No-Taste Red and Leaf Green to color the batter.  I layer the batter into the cupcake liners and we have colorburst cupcakes!  They're a lot of fun for the kids.

For the "remember' prompt:  Has reading played a part in your holidays past? Describe at least one experience.  I have been reading the account of Christ's incarnation to the girls from Matthew and Luke - and we've been talking about John 1 some, too.  Beyond reading the Biblical account of Christmas, we really don't read a lot of particularly Christmasy books or stories.