Day 9 - read a Christmas book, which was just almost magical in front of the fireplace with the tree lights aglow.
Day 10 - go see Christmas lights, which I had originally planned to do up big-time, by going to the Keizer Parade of Lights with some friends. When time came to go, Brian had the coziest fire going in the fireplace, we had been lazy all afternoon, and the last thing I wanted to do was bundle everyone up to go stand outside and look at lights. So, we went for a short 15 minute cruise through the neighborhoods around our house, singing at the top of our lungs to John Denver and the Muppets' "12 Days of Christmas". Everyone loved it just fine.
Day 11 - draw a Christmas picture, which was kind of a lame wimp out on my part, strategically planted in the middle of things to give Mom a semi-break. My little artists were in 7th heaven.
Day 12 - make Christmas cookies, which consisted of popping open a package of Nestle "pre-printed" sugar cookies. Jacob actually took over and baked almost all of them himself. All Austin and Leah are truly concerned with is consuming the finished product. I truly had great plans to make cookie cutter dough and let them do the whole cookie cutter thing, but ya' know... at the end of the day, I'm a pre-packaged cookie kind of girl.
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