Our first stay home day of the long winter break started with Alice getting into the cupboard above the fridge where we keep parental-supervision kids items like slime kits, science experiments, and this weird beaded play-doh stuff. While we were sleeping in, the kids were busy making things. Alice must've known she wasn't supposed to get it down, because she actually did a fairly good job of keeping the mess contained. Anyway, they made these deranged snowmen that were pretty cool.
The next project was to make Alice clean out her backpack before stowing it away for the break. I didn't want to find something like moldy chicken nuggets in there two weeks later. (She has really brought chicken nuggets home from school before in her backpack.) She's a bit of a disorganized hoarder...
The next activity of the morning was to play dreidel. Simon learned the game at school as part of their unit on holidays around the world, and he seems to really like it. Our friend Rachel gave us some dreidels to use, I bought some gold coins at Harris Teeter, and we played. It's entirely a game of luck (which I find quite annoying) but Simon loved it because he was winning. Alice ended up going out first and had a major breakdown.
After lunch, we made sugar cookies. This was our first time doing this as a family as far as I can recall, and it went pretty well. The kids really liked it!
Ellie came over just in time to help with the frosting.
We finally got rid of the frosting that had been in our fridge since the summer birthdays.
That night after supper, we went out for our solstice fire. Our neighbor Kim even joined us for a bit.
What a day!
