Twas The Night Before Christmas

For the first year in a long time, we didn't have anywhere we had to be on Christmas Eve. We had a lot of fun at home getting ready for Santa.

First we made gingerbread cookies:

After dinner, we channeled our excitement about Santa coming into making foam gingerbread houses. (None of the real gingerbread house kits are peanut-free.):

West didn't want me to take his picture because he said his house wasn't done. But he kept taking it apart and starting over so it never looked any more done than this:

Then we read Twas The Night Before Christmas:

And finally, we put out treats for Santa and his reindeer:

We left hot chocolate instead of milk for Santa because Cash said Santa would be cold and want to drink something hot:

My plan worked – the boys were totally tuckered out after all of that and went right to sleep.