Yesterday was the Marina holiday party. It’s like that, when you have lots of chaos in your life; you have to wait for some sort of external motivation to do the decoration thing. Otherwise, your brain is saying “oh goodness, that looks and sounds like more work…”
So. Considering that we live on a boat, and a boat does not provide much room either for storing or for putting up decorations, you have to be compact. We have precisely one box of decorations. And this is how we arrayed them:
The “tree” in the lazyjacks:
The stockings on the sailcover (Kaia has her own!):
The finished product. The kids stuffed fabric gift bags with rags, and we threw a tree skirt over the boom, for the illusion of gifts under the tree:
One of the really cool things about living in a marina is that there’s always something fascinating happening. While we were decorating, our neighbor Jay was fishing, (while Chris socialized) and the boys kept running over to see what he’d caught.
At the party later that night, the inestimable DJ played Santa. Rowan and Kestrel had seen Santa once before, but it was all terribly new for Aurora. I’m not sure if she was more intimidated by the Santa she didn’t know, or by the monkey, which is bigger than her.
So there’s the beginning of our holiday. I think our next big adventure will be the attempting of gluten-free cinnamon rolls…
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She doesn’t look intimidated at all, and hey, nice warm merinos those boys are wearing… and p.s. save me a gf cinnamon roll – yum! Hugs to you all for a fabulous holiday…
Hey L!
Have you tried Chebe GF mixes yet?
We made killer cinnamon rolls with the generic mix, but it looks like they have a cinnamon roll mix available now, as well.
http://www.chebe.com/
They’re super safe for most and based on primarily tapioca flour.
PS Ella Rose is totally into monkeys, too.
Merry Christmas!
Awesome, but you need to take one at night with the lights on. And you know I am stealing pictures to put on my facebook so my friends can see.
On the gluten free I got a cook book for you. Dr Sally’s Allergy recipes. gluten, grains, peanuts, milk products, soy and refined sugar free
ooooo, please post the recipe if you get good ones. I really want cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Laureen. Love Gloria
What a nice community you have there! Our neighbors are fabulous, but not very kid oriented overall. Enjoy!
Hey! Great pics – sorry we missed the holiday party, it looks like fun!! We are in the process of moving our stuff onto Syzygy – oy there is so much… One of our issues is that Matt scored a bunch of Kashi stuff (cereal, crackers and granola bars) and neither of us are huge Kashi fans and even if we were, we certainly couldn’t eat as much as we have!!! Would you or anyone you know be interested in taking some of the stash off our hands?? There are a couple different kinds of cereal, about 12 boxes of 7-grain crackers and I think 2 kinds of granola bars (a TON of them). Anyway, let me know if you want any or if you know someone else we can pawn them off on
Hope you’re having some Happy Holidays!!
Karen