My family really enjoys the Christmas holiday, and we love to decorate like I'm sure all of you do! I was thrilled when my husband decided to take from our shed our many boxes of Heritage Village houses! He thought it would be a nice project to do with the kids. We hadn't set it up in its entirety since, dare I say it, 1992! We had collected so many beautiful ones but then as time went on, we had stopped buying them and would just put one or two out.

When Billy and Caitlin saw how many we had, they were amazed! Billy really enjoyed opening the boxes and admiring the detail on each building, bridge and figure. As we were unpacking them and piling them in my kitchen, I realized how much I missed them and was so happy that my very busy husband had thought of setting them up. When we get it done, I will post the pictures!

I am also going to do some Christmas bowl fillers and ornaments with the kids tomorrow (Friday) after school. From seeing and reading the blog "And Baby Makes Five", I admired the salt dough ornaments that were made! I remember doing that project as a little girl with my sister and Mom and thought it would very fun for Caitlin and Billy to do with me. I got the mini cutters for the bowl fillers and took out my various cookie cutters. I would like to do some gingerbread people for our gingerbread tree. Our main tree is in the family room but the last three years I have set up a gingerbread tree in our foyer and it only contains "gingerbread" ornaments. Its been fun collecting them each year. Billy and Caitlin can add to our tree with the salt dough gingerbread people, and we can make some lovely bowl fillers too! The recipe for the salt dough and step by step instructions are on that great blog along with many other recipes and fun things all for a home-made holiday!