Mmmmm

Don't you love all the sweet things that are part of Christmas time?

Cookies

I have a sugar cookie and a buttercream frosting recipe that I absolutely love, so the kids and their cousins decorated cookies one night.

Candy

Once again I made penuche and pecan logs . My grandma has been making it for 50+ years. I will probably end up doing the same thing. Penuche is a big part of Christmas to me, penuche runs through my blood.

I had my own little sweat shop going this year. The boys bagged the pecan logs, Chad sealed them.

Gingerbread Houses

Why exactly do we have kids decorate Gingerbread Houses? They want to destroy them as soon as they are built.

I made my boys wait three days to eat their Gingerbread Houses. It was torture for them. And then yesterday I let them attack them.

I thought it would be fun to drill a hole in the side of the Gingerbread house and throw in a firecracker. Hmm, probably not a good thing to show little boys. And Jack did just fine destroying the Gingerbread House on his own. (Actually with a little help from his brother. Ben's train is just fine. Brothers can be kind of mean sometimes, huh?)

I love all the sweet things, but I am a little sugared out. How about you?

Ben

I love this guy! He is just a good kid. Yes, he is a kid and he drives me crazy and frustrates me a lot, but he is wonderful too.

I have had horrible allergies/hayfever this year. I know a lot of people are suffering a lot this year, it's just an awful year. The other morning when I woke up Ben was in bed next to me. He had been awake for a little while and was just laying by me. When I woke up, I realized my eye was sealed shut with dried eye goop. Ben ever so gently cleaned the dried eye goop out of my eyelashes so I could open my eye. So sweet!

Last week we went bowling. I decided not to bowl so I could help the boys, specifically Jack because it was his first time. But Ben took it upon himself to help Jack with bowling. Every time it was Jack's turn, Ben would line up the ramp for Jack to put the ball on, then he would go get the ball and put it on the ramp for Jack. Ben was very careful to make sure not to put the ball on the rack until it was okay for Jack to bowl. Jack would bowl his two balls and then Ben would put the ramp away. Ben did this every time for one and a half games and then Jack decided he was done.

The boys often fight. Maybe it's not all that much, but it's more than I would like. But they truly love each other. And I love that.