Early Holiday

We’ve had to shuffle our holiday celebrations to coincide with when my brother has the boys, so Christmas happened yesterday! We’ve taken over hosting as our house is the largest – it’s been super fun to take on that role and make everything pretty and cozy. (Instagram shots here – the photos above were obviously taken before children descended upon us.)

This is the first year we made Christmas crackers – it wasn’t hard and it was fun to fill them with trinkets of our own choosing. We didn’t use a cracker snap but cut the cardboard roll to easily snap in half and then perforated the outside paper – so it “popped” when you twisted them open, and opened easily.

It’s a little wild to have everything done with a whole week stretching ahead of us. I have lots of big plans to paint a couple rooms in the house, but I imagine there will be some reading and tiny hikes in between.

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!