12 Days of Christmas: The Return of the Charlie Brown Tree

The lights on my fiber optic tree no longer flicker. I'm a bit scared to turn it on these days so to make it festive, Robbie helped me wrap a somewhat traditional string of lights up and down and all around. The tree is decorated with train ornaments and a crafted ornament Robbie made in class by tracing his hand. He wanted to get the hole punch out and create a hole to hang it. I almost punched the wrong side. That would have been quite disastrous. Lucky for me I caught on just in time. Oh! It's a reindeer. Just with spots.

12 Days of Christmas: Gingerbread Village 2012

We crossed another Christmas tradition of our to-do list last weekend - the annual gingerbread village in Waikiki. This year they amazed again, making the village a global village to include the Eiffel Tower, London Bridge, Washington Monument, and a Japanese pagoda in addition to the Hawaiian buildings. We arrived early enough in the season that the smell of fresh gingerbread was still in the air.

12 Days of Christmas: I'm back!

All aboard! It's that time of year again. The holidays! We kicked the month of December off in grand style today with two fabulous and train-filled activities. First up - the Candy Cane Train. Technically not a train, but hey, it's Christmas. Not a time to get too technical about things, eh?