Thursday, December 21, 2017

Solstice Celebration

This year, we decided to bring back our family solstice celebration. We started this way back as a way to have our own little holiday celebration at home before heading to Ohio for Christmas. (Last year we were on the verge of moving and in that chaos, we neglected this important holiday.)

It's fun to think about building family traditions, except neither of us are very sentimental or apt to put much effort into these sorts of things.

So this year's festivities included:

1. Taking a picture of Simon's Winter Solstice Silhouette in the morning.



2. Getting the candlesticks out of the attic so we could have a candlelit pizza dinner.



3. Having Alice's bizarre gingerbread house (graham crackers frostinged onto a milk carton) for dessert.



4. Letting the kids open two presents each (as a way to take slightly fewer presents to Ohio and back).