Getting in the Christmas Spirit

I am so proud of my girls for helping to get in the Christmas spirit this week. This isn’t something I would post on Facebook or Instagram, because it’s not about recognition, but this is still a memory book and I want to remember. My office is doing a toys for tots collection and I told the girls we were going to shop for it and I would really like it if they would buy at least one toy with their own money. I didn’t require it but that was all the nudging they needed and chose way more than one toy. 

They said they had all they needed and lots of kids don’t. ❤️ We dropped them off today and the box was overflowing! 

They’ve also been helping with all my Christmas pop by gifts for my clients and my Christmas baking. 

This week we’ve tied tags on and delivered  my 30 pop bys, made 4 batches of sausage balls, a triple batch of peanut butter balls (all but a dozen of those went to Houston 😊) cake balls and 6 chocolate pies. Matt made jerky and I also made a banana pudding. And wrote in and got ready to send all 88 of our Christmas cards! Tomorrow we go to Alexandria for our Christmas picnic with the Baton Rouge family and we wanted to bring food gifts and also ship some to Shanon and Alex. I also had 2 closings and got another under contract so it was a crazy busy week. But it was all the good and fun kind of busy. The girls also worked homemade ornaments to give as gifts. Oh yeah, and on top of all of this we had to get school done too. 😉 Only one more week till the break and it can be all festive all of the time. They don’t seem to mind too much when they get to spend school like this though.




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