Porklets, Presents & Gingerbread Houses

I know it's Christmastime. I got up at 4:45 this morning to make porklets. You probably call them mini pigs-in-a-blanket: little sausages wrapped in crescent roll dough. A family we know always called them porklets, so for us, the name stuck. I sent 64 of them to school with L this morning. They are having a breakfast Christmas party. I probably won't get to go to the party because of the presents . . .

. . .lots of presents. Our church had an angel tree in the front lobby this year. We had about 90 angels on it. Most of them were from our local elementary school. The gifts came in last Sunday and the parents will pick up the last of them this afternoon. It has been so much fun connecting the parents with the presents.

My eldest wanted to make a gingerbread house this year. In the planning process, she decided she didn't like ginger, so she made it from her wonderful chocolate chip cookie dough, minus the chocolate chips. She and L decorated it yesterday afternoon. It is a beautiful sight. I think she was inspired by the pictures she saw at CNN.com (photo 10) of London attractions done in gingerbread.