Christmas Hermit's

Wow.. since school was out Friday, we have not wanted to leave the house. 

Winter hermits we are. We left the house twice over the weekend to go on a walk and to go watch  A Christmas Carol play. Other than that we stayed inside and time flew. 

 making breakfast.. 

 he's going through a whole box of popsicle sticks making "train whistles" 

 The kids made self portrait ornaments. Greta made the one of Chompers. They are all hanging on the tree. 

 The cat doesn't stray far from his tree. 

 Going to watch a Christmas Carol. So glad Greta was up to going. She was still getting her strength back after being sick. 

 She opened her school recorder that came in the mail.. We were lucky enough to listen to that for an evening....

 Presents were finally put under the tree... they weren't excited or anything. 

 lots of play time and craft time this weekend....

 These three took on the project of building a working roller coaster with K'nex pieces. They were missing ones they needed but improvised. 

 She finished her cat ornament...and little sleepy Fieldin by his little tree light.. 

 lots of perler bead work.. we love perler beads

 and I have been making 3-4 soups a week. I love making them. We are trying new ones each week. Greta helped me make a hungarian mushroom soup. She liked cutting up ALL the mushrooms which I was thankful for:) 

 A working roller coaster that is very cool. It survived the cat knocking it over a couple times and there was alot of searching for pieces that might work.  

And here we are at Monday. It is noon and the kids STILL don't want to leave the house....