In order to keep Christmas feeling special, we are still going to dress up the kids. Calvin doesn't care, but the girls are excited about their fancy Christmas dresses - Jane has a velvety green one, and Clara has a chiffon kind of red one. I'm sure I will get lots of pictures.
I also went ahead and planned a menu, which is saying something for me because I really basically never cook. For food ideas I asked what everyone was doing for Christmas dinner in a group for parents of kids with celiac, and I was very impressed and slightly intimidated by the many ideas people gave me. We are going to do Santa pancakes, which I learned are basically pancakes where you use strawberries and whipped cream to make a Santa hat and beard. For dinner I'm getting a Costco chicken (so delicious, so easy), and then I'm going to make a Brussels sprout cheese bake and a cauliflower parmesan "bread" with marinara dipping sauce. Also planning to make cranberry bliss bars for dessert--for some reason cranberries just seem very holiday appropriate. The girls, especially Clara, really like to "help" me cook, and prepping for an end-of-day meal will make the day feel more like an event.
On top of that we have never before done the thing where the kids wake up Christmas morning to a bunch of presents that weren't there the night before. I think they will flip.
It's going to be a good day.
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