Phew am I exhausted! Yesterday was my first annual kiddos Christmas party and cookie swap and it was so fun! We had 10 mommies and 14 babies ranging in age from 8 weeks to almost 3yrs, and it was very much a controlled (sometimes bordering on uncontrolled!) chaos. There was never not a child crying, especially when Santa came to visit! Maddie was not a huge fan of sitting on Santa's lap. She even cried when he came in the front door! What is it about a man in a red suit with a beard that freaks little kids out?!? Our santa was Mike's co-workers dad and he was fantastic! So sweet with the little ones and he definitely looked the part. If he will brave this crowd again, he's hired for next year too.
Every kid (except for the little babes) made a hand print reindeer. So easy to do, but so cute! I'm gonna do a handprint craft every year so we can see how big our little ones are getting every Christmas season.
I made curried chicken salad for lunch and a sweet mommy friend brought a salad. A lot of the moms asked for my curried chicken salad recipe so I'll post it here for all the blog readers to enjoy:
Curry Chicken Salad (adapted from a recipe in my Vera Bradley cookbook)
White meat from 1 Rotisserie chicken (I use lemon pepper seasoned chicken)
Green or red grapes quartered
2-3 sticks of celery chopped
(You can add chopped almonds or walnuts, but i didn't this time!)
1 Cup Light Mayo
1/2 C Skim milk
2 TBS Curry powder
Salt and Pepper to taste
-Combine chicken, grapes, celery and nuts in a large bowl
-In a seperate bowl whisk together milk and mayo until smooth, then add curry powder, salt and pepper
-Stir dressing into chicken mixture until chicken mixture is coated well.
-It's best when refrigerated for a couple hours.
-Serve on a salad or croissants, or if you're like me, just eat it straight out of the bowl with a spoon!
The kids ate PB&Js that I cut out to look like gingerbread men with a cookie cutter.
Every guest also brough 2 dozen cookies and we had a cookie swap at the end. The cookies were so yummy! Thanks everyone for participating!
As a party favor, I gave every kid a book on the first Christmas. Even though Santa was there and we made reindeer crafts, I wanted everyone to know that the reason for our celebration is that Christ came down to earth as a baby as the perfect sacrifice for our sins. I think we loose that in the busy commercial Christmas season. I want all of those precious little ones at my party to know the love their Savior has for them, and to know the richness of being in a relationship with Him.
I learned a lot about my self yesterday during the party too... I can keep my cool under utter chaos! I wasn't stressed out that my house looked like a tornado had swept through. I was just enjoying the moment... I have come a very long way! I thank Maddie and Jesus for that! They both have taught me a lot about letting go and enjoying the ride.
Like I said in the beginning, this was the start of my annual party... can't wait to see what next year is like!
Love you all,
Katy
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