We began the day finishing wrapping and boxing up gifts to deliver to the Leaa Cruce home and the Nicole Wilhelmy home.
I stayed home and made homemade pie crusts, baked a pumpkin pie, cherry berry pie, an apple cake, made the do-ahead breakfast casserole (hash browns and sausage), plus weighing and packaging Ford's peanut brittle, some cleaning, picking up, playing with Ginger. Ford made his yeast rolls, and AA and I made sugar cookie dough in the early evening. Carolyn arrived and we iced the cookies, went to the 7:00 p.m. church candlelight service. By 9:30 p.m., we were ready for bed!
AA made napkin rings from leather cord and beads, for all the "growns":
Peanut Brittle, Ford made about 18 batches!
Homemade apple cake from Homestead Table (food TV channel) and cherry berry pie (Southern Living 1992 cover photo); we all love this pie!
Carolyn brought a homemade cheese ball and shrimp cocktail - we ate it all up! So good! We had dinner that was a gift from Ford's brother Bill and Joan: Honey-Baked Turkey with two sides. All yummy!
We baked homemade cookies and used homemade red and white icing:
Lots of sprinkles:
Santa had three of these delicious cookies!
AA opened one gift at bedtime and chose the one Chris Clarke sent, what a fun surprise - all Star War cards and a collector book to keep them in. AA loved sorting through many news ones, adding to her phone app and then putting in the book. She loved it!
Santa came and we all slept wonderfully (except for Carolyn, in bed with AA and Ginger!!)
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