A Sweet Day

Today the doctor had good news baby boy blue and I were doing good!! Praise the Lord...thank you for your prayers, calls and concerns!   He wants me to take it as easy as possible and try not to do too much.  That is not so easy to tell a 32 week pregnant woman with Christmas 10 days away! I am going to do my best.  The good thing is that Christmas shopping is pretty much complete...hip hip hurray! It has been for a while, but I did pick up some last minute things today. My girls LOVE these...

Calico Critters, and I do too..they are so cute and I love watching them play pretend with them!

The other day we worked on making this....

You can find the recipe HERE.  We made these for our sweet teachers at school.   I halfed the recipe and used smaller jars.  They were very easy to make, but a bit challenging when you have a 2 and 4  year old who sees chocolate and goes gaga! (No children touched any ingredients that were to be put in the jars....I am kinda funny about things like that!)

We made a little assembly line and got them all finished up!

I just love mason jars!

I used some red and white twine and attached a little card with this poem:

A significant symbol of Christmas

Is the simple candy cane.

It's shape is the crook of the Shepherd

One of the first who came.

The lively pepermint flavor is

The regal gift of spice.

The white is Jesus' purity.

The red His sacrifice.

The narrow stripes are friendship

And the nearness of His love.

Eternal, sweet compassion

A gift from God above.

The candy cane reminds us all

Of how much God cared.

And like His Christmas gift to us

It's meant to be broken and shared. 

We taste tested the recipe the other night, and it was rich and yummy! I used the indredients that we had already divided out into a jar.  The candy canes had all stuck together (not sure how you stop that from happening), but once I crushed them back up it was DELICIOUS!