Christmas

 For our Christmas Party we read our favorite Christmas story,

each girl brought a treat to exchange and

a "White Elephant" gift for our game.

There were a few things I learned from this party....

one, having each girl read a book out loud was too long for some

two, these girls were too young to understand how the "White Elephant"

 gift game worked.

 The books read were....

Little Miss Spider A Christmas Wish

Snowmen At Night

A Christmas Dress For Ella

 I don't think the girls enjoyed the White Elephant game as I thought they would.

I had contributed a gift as well, but I didn't match it to the level of their gifts.

I explained that they can take a gift from someone else when it was their turn,

but no one did.

They each picked a gift.

We took turns opening them and the first comment was...

"This looks old"

I tried explaining that no one brought new things.

When the last girl opened her gift, which was my gift, she looked into the box,

then looked up and slowly brought out a black purse with pink pok-a-dots

and holds it up.

Her face said she loved it!

All of the others girls faces were green with envy.

It was funny and sad.

I won't do that again.

Everyone brought wonderful treats to exchange

(I can't believe I didn't get a picture)

There were chocolate covered pretzels, 

chocolate chip cookies

chocolate covered strawberries

Gingerbread girl and boy

They were very excited to share their homemade treats they enjoyed making at home.