St. Nick’s Day
We get to celebrate a little Christmas early in December around here with St. Nicholas Day. It’s a fun tradition that we inherited from Matt’s side of the family and I love that it’s a little “tide us over” celebration between Thanksgiving to Christmas.
This year, since St. Nicholas Day was a Tuesday, we had to celebrate in the evening rather than first thing in the morning. I had the kids set their slippers in front of the Christmas tree before we left for school and St. Nick had visited by the time we got home. Didn’t get a very good shot of all the slippers and gifts lined up because we were in the “just arrived home” rush, so this was the best I could dig up.
Ava got styrofoam balls that she got to paint like planets and we’ll be hanging from the ceiling in her room.
Noah got the first installment of Matchbox cars for his burgeoning collection.
Apparently, we were all really excited about this one.
And, Matt received a tabletop air hockey game and I got the new She & Him CD of Christmas music. We’ve had lots of fun playing with our new toys. We’ve played cars almost every night since then and Ava got out her paint and brushes this weekend to get those planets done. Thanks, St. Nick, for the great treats! See you again soon!
Looks like the gifts were well received!