December 28

Drawing assignment:  Free choice.  When the girls were little we would do the Twelve Days of Christmas beginning on the Dec 26.  They would get some little gift on their bedside table, a little shaped eraser, a colored pencil, something.  Then on Jan 6 we'd have a Twelfth Night party with a cake and party crackers.

Anne found crackers for us this year at World Market.  When Eileen and Warren were here on the 26th for Christmas, we popped the crackers.  They had grown up presents in them instead of children's toys:  a tiny motorcycle with sidecar, measuring spoons, and this little picture frame, and, of course, jokes and paper crowns.  It was great fun to have crackers again....  Mary