Christmas Eve

We gave our kids a choice this Christmas- Christmas presents under the tree, or plane tickets to Oregon for some family time.  So I got off the hook this year for Christmas shopping.  And I really loved it.  Because some things can't be bought from a store....

We did open stockings this morning but there was a rule that things had to be created and made.  So little Christmas elves' workshops have been filling the house with puddles of glue, bits of wire, trails of ribbons and scraps of fabric. And there may have been some lemon curd made to top blueberry, pecan scones.

Christmas morning will find us leaving the house before the sun and hopping on a plane, and then a train, to more adventures in Oregon.  More pictures to come.