Fleur de Aleta

Dear Son, We are ending another year, saying Goodbye to 2016.  This year your ability to understand what's going on around you has grown in leaps and bounds.  This Christmas, it wasn't just about the wrapping paper or the bright lights.  It was about Christmas, Baby Jesus, giving and receiving, Santa and being on the "nice" list, the consequences of your actions, writing letters to Santa (Oma was a big help in working with your writing skills) and singing joyful songs. At your school Christmas performance, you sang loud and clear, did the hand motions (for instance, hands above your head for "antlers") and even deepened your voice to represent Santa.  Your teacher told us before how you do great with knowing the words to the songs and how loud you are when you sing... it's one thing to hear it from your teacher, but really cool to see it in a performance. Your behavior at school is fantastic!  You rarely have your banana in the yellow.  Though one ...

Gregory's class had a Christmas party.  I brought a fruit tray and a Christmas tree cake.  I found a cheap Christmas tree pan at the grocery store, sprayed it so nothing would stick and filled it with the cake recipe that I like.  I had just enough icing to make the green tree.  While at the grocery store, I looked for the regular size M&M's to be the decorations, but only found the large M&M's - the kids loved them!  Super easy cake to decorate and make - I used a large tip to pipe the green - so it wasn't time consuming at all.