Just relaxin'

Here are the two buddies relaxing watching tv.

Bebe lapin is very very obsessed with Maelie these days. He needs to be within a few inches of her at all times. It's so bad that sometimes Maelie gets upset with him and asks him to go away. Now that's what I call sibling rivalry!

oh Christmas tree

Ta-da.... Surely not as nice as the picture on the box! but cute nonetheless.

I found that it didn't work well stacking the stars one on top of the other, so I used baby gingerbread people between each star! haha!

Traditions

I guess that after 2 years of baking and decorating gingerbread people you can call it a tradition!



Maelie especially enjoys decorating them with LOTS of sprinkles. She doesn't like to eat too many sweets, so the ones she makes for herself, she usually doesn't overdecorate. The ones she makes for daddy though are overflowing with sprinkles!



She insisted on making sure her mouth is full of icing and sprinkles for dramatic effect!

Chewy Molasses-Spice cookies

Here's a new cookie recipe I tried for the first time tonight. It comes from the Martha Stewart website.

Wonder what I did today?

Today was our annual chocolate making day (for my friend Jacinthe). She makes her list for presents she wishes to give and we go ahead and set up shop in my kitchen. I had my hands full for 3 hours doing that so I didn't have my camera handy. Her kids helped out and made a LOT of chocolate.

As I was up at 4:30 this morning, I had a chance to get a head start with my baking. After she left I continued. So here is the fruit of my labor today:



Please note that some sampling had been done already.... and so a lot of them were missing!

Santa breakfast

Today was the Santa breakfast at Maelie's school. I wasn't sure how it was going to go because Maelie had fever yesterday and this morning. She was so happy to dress up in her fancy Christmas dress and her Christmas shoes that I think she is cured!

She got to make crafts with her 2 friends.



These 2 boys get along very well. Maelie loves Tristan, and had a love-hate relationship with Donovan. It's actually pretty funny. Donovan adores Maelie and will do anything for her. He is pretty heartbroken that it is not reciprocal!



We had a yummy breakfast prepared by the parent committee (I didn't participate in the food this year, I was in charge of crafts).



The lady doing the make-up was awesome! and she said this was her first time....



Here are Maelie and Donovan. Isn't he so adorable?

Finished projects

Here are a few projects I managed to put together with the pieces posted recently.

First off we have Santa, a tree and a bunch of caramel filled presents.



Next we have the gigantic sleigh filled with a ton of Christmas themed chocolates.



Finally we have Rudolph and a big hollow Christmas tree, with a bunch of small chocolates surrounding them. I just realized now that I could have had Rudolph face the tree instead of looking the other way!




These have now all been wrapped in cellophane and are awaiting the ribbon. That's for another day! I find the chocolate so adorable! This is why I keep making some!

My goal with these projects is to find a way to raise money with them to adopt a family for Christmas. Perhaps I will set up a raffle at work or something, we'll see. Stay tuned!