Sisters Seashell Shack

We had a very slow, chill morning at home today, just taking it easy again. We let Jeff sleep in till about 10am, and the girls and I just laid on the couch watching some tv together. I also finished this cute puzzle that I started yesterday, and had a few helpers join me towards the end.

And clearly I love making these cute little puzzle videos lately, so here’s another one:

 

 

Eventually, we had a late brunch from McDonald’s (didn’t have any breakfast food in the house to cook; no bread, eggs, etc…), and then we did some chores like laundry, dishes, tidying the living room, and taking out the trash. We finally got cleaned up and dressed and then went on up to Havana to finish up the seashell Christmas ornaments we’d been working on for the past few weeks. We had hand-written price tags we had to tie on all of them, and we ended up making a few more of the snowmen ones, because those seemed to be popular when I posted them on Facebook.

I already posted pictures of ALL of our ornaments on my Facebook earlier tonight, but here are a few of my favorites, the designs I came up with and did on my own mostly. The wreaths are my #1 fave, and I’ll for sure need one of those for my own tree this year!

We have almost 90 ornaments, and we’re hoping to see as many as possible at our Missions Market tomorrow morning at church! This is our second annual Missions Market, for kids to have their own booths to sell items to raise money for missions, through BGMC, which is the Boys and Girls Missionary Challenge, “Kids Helping Kids” through missions!

While Emerson and I were working on cute signs for our booth, Addison was very hands on helping Nana get started on dinner, specifically some very delicious Red Lobster garlic cheddar biscuits.

I made this sign for our booth, and then my little mini-me-copy-cat wanted to make one too (but I had to pencil out the words for her to trace). And honestly, hers turned out great too! Actually, her little penguin is even cuter than mine 😉

We wanted a little bit of fresh air, even though it was chilly, so we made some hot tea (for me and Emmie) and hot cocoa (for Addie) and bundled up in blankets on the back porch for as long as we could take it.

Then we had a very delicious dinner that Nana made for us, and even ate the fancy meal on the fancy plates.

The girls were getting in to the bathtub right as the electricity blacked out, not only in their house, but all the way up and down their entire street! So Nana pulled out all the battery-operated candles and they had their bath time by candlelight, and I put relaxing spa music on my phone for them and made it a whole thing. Luckily, it came back on about 10 minutes later, and then they had ice cream for dessert.

It’s gonna be freezing tomorrow morning when we show up to set up our booth for the Missions Market, and I’m already worried about being so cold all morning! But I’m excited for the event, because it’s going to be fun! I’ll be one of the two cashiers taking cash and cards, same as last year, and it’s a non-stop job, but it’s fun seeing what everyone buys and talking to everyone… just gotta be super bundled up to stay warm!