My Favorite Time of the Year...
It’s definitely this time of year. Pumpkin Pies. Egg Nog. Holiday Music 24/7. My family loves this time of the year. I swear Austen started commanding his Alexa to play Xmas music in September so he could fall asleep to it. Peyton and Hailey have been drawing pictures and doing holiday crafts to hang around the house since before Thanksgiving. And Tom even broke our golden rule of no holiday lights before Thanksgiving this year.
But I think the tradition during this season that our kids look forward to the most is cutting down our Xmas tree with friends. Peyton missed a friend’s birthday party this year to go and didn’t even feel bad about missing it. She wanted to go tree cutting. I think they really look forward to this event right along with us every year.
This year was a little rainy so to beat the afternoon downpour we tailgated first (hot cocoa, treats and spiked apple cider along with football and a lot of catching up) and then went to cut down our Xmas tree. Dudeck’s Pine Country store expanded and was spacious and nice this year. The trees looked a little sparse though like we’d better stop telling people we go there! The kids visited Santa. Austen played along as he finally realized the truth about Santa or finally admitted it. He is having fun keeping the spirit of the season alive for the other two though with lots of questions about the elves this year and how we moved them and our stocking stuffer tradition. I’m really glad he believed for as long as he did. It made the season extra special. Now he joins the rest of us in helping Santa spread the spirit of the season.
After tree cutting, we tried a new restaurant in New Buffalo called Beer Church. It’s an old church turned brewery with beers called Pontius Pilate and Crooked Cross. The food was really good too including their communion bread. We chalked this outing up to our mass attendance this week. We’ll be back to try out their heated igloo tents at some point too in the future but without the kids.
It was another great year with good friends and good food filled with thankfulness for all we have received this year - health and happiness.
But I think the tradition during this season that our kids look forward to the most is cutting down our Xmas tree with friends. Peyton missed a friend’s birthday party this year to go and didn’t even feel bad about missing it. She wanted to go tree cutting. I think they really look forward to this event right along with us every year.This year was a little rainy so to beat the afternoon downpour we tailgated first (hot cocoa, treats and spiked apple cider along with football and a lot of catching up) and then went to cut down our Xmas tree. Dudeck’s Pine Country store expanded and was spacious and nice this year. The trees looked a little sparse though like we’d better stop telling people we go there! The kids visited Santa. Austen played along as he finally realized the truth about Santa or finally admitted it. He is having fun keeping the spirit of the season alive for the other two though with lots of questions about the elves this year and how we moved them and our stocking stuffer tradition. I’m really glad he believed for as long as he did. It made the season extra special. Now he joins the rest of us in helping Santa spread the spirit of the season.
After tree cutting, we tried a new restaurant in New Buffalo called Beer Church. It’s an old church turned brewery with beers called Pontius Pilate and Crooked Cross. The food was really good too including their communion bread. We chalked this outing up to our mass attendance this week. We’ll be back to try out their heated igloo tents at some point too in the future but without the kids.
It was another great year with good friends and good food filled with thankfulness for all we have received this year - health and happiness.
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