12 Days of Christmas

I borrowed an idea from my friend Kathleen.  We are (hopefully) starting a new tradition with the 12 days of Christmas.  I bought 12 mini stockings and used glitter and glue to number them.  Then I put a different Christmas activity in each one.  Now Kathleen is doing 24 days of Christmas, I could only handle 12 - plus we like that song.  :-)

So far we have:

Day 1: Watched Elf and enjoyed a Christmas tin of popcorn.
Day 2: Went to a Gingerbread Decorating Party.  (this was a lot of fun, pictures to come later)
Day 3: Went to Dave and Buster for my company Christmas party.  The kids love this, they each received a playing card loaded with points to play games.  Daddy was able to come this year, and we all bowled one game.  I forgot my camera though :-(
Day 4: Christmas cookies - I am going to a Mom's Night Out tonight and it is a cookie exchange, so we set to baking this morning.  Most of the decorated ones will be staying here, but it was a lot of fun.  I actually think is was the most fun we ever had making cookies.  This could be partly due to the fact that the boys are older now, but I really think it was the cookies.
I always, ALWAYS, have trouble with sugar cookies and cutting them out.  It just never works for and then we all end up frustrated for spending so much time and then the cookies are a flop.  This year we found the neatest thing - refrigerated cookies already cut just for people like me.  We bought two packs (thanks to a B1G1 sale and a coupon) and made 48 cookies to to decorate.  It went smoothly and therefore was much more enjoyable.