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This year all the kids made their own Christmas gifts. Michael, 14, knitted hats and scarves. Gabriela made bookmarks and necklaces. Joseph colored rulers. Joshua gave everyone a piece of candy (not homemade but very inexpensive), and Shawna colored picture frames with pictures of each person in them. It was quite a lot of work helping each child, but I enjoyed so much seeing their creations. I absolutely loved opening them.
Michael made me this gorgeous scarf with dark and bright red. I can tell just by looking at it that he took great care in making it. Each of them put a lot of thought into their gifts.
The children were also immensely blessed by the gifts they received from Santa himself (not mom and dad), friends and family alike who put many gifts under the tree. What a great blessing. The kids thought all their gifts were fabulous.
For Christmas dinner, we had cranberry sauce, applesauce, mashed potatoes, biscuits, Black Forest ham, carrots, and either cranberry cooler (half and half cranberry juice and sprite), apple soda (half and half apple juice and sprite) or coke.
Thank you to everyone who helped us come up with ideas for doing this this year. It really helped stretch the finances as well. Check out www.richardsonstudios.com as we are selling some items online because we enjoyed making them so much.
God bless you,
Jennifer
Mom to 5 special kids, Michael 14, Gabriela 12, Joseph 9, Joshua 7 and Shawna 4
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