Christmas and New Year's
Our first Christmas in Cleo was a success. It was different than those in the past but we still had an amazing day--and season, because honestly, Christmas lasts the whole month of December. We went to see Christmas lights (either we walked around our campground or we drove to see lights), a nativity scene, and various Christmas events like the Winter Wonderland in Bradenton (see my last post, November's Adventures (and some of December's) My mom bought Mia and I a LEGO Advent calendar that we loved. We got a nutcracker, a sled and snow hill, a little mixer, and lots more. Since there was no room for a Christmas tree in Cleo, we cut a tree out of green paper and made our own ornaments to stick on it: I used my Spriograph to create a few, and others we made out of rainbow scratch notes. It was so heartwarming, creating the ornaments and listening to Christmas music as a family. We made banana muffins instead of cookies this year, and they were so good! I