We had a quiet Christmas Eve at home this year. Festivities started mid-day with an all-family Paquette zoom call:
In the afternoon, we finished up the gingerbread houses we began the day before (by baking the gingerbread and starting to stick it together):
We had a little time left in the afternoon, so I broke out these make-your-own headband kits I bought on clearance last January:
We finished up just in time for our zoom with Grandma and Pop-pop to open gifts and have Pop-pop read Twas the Night Before Christmas:
The centerpiece of our evening was celebrating the Icelandic tradition of book flood. Everyone got a gift of a new book, and we spent the rest of the night reading by the fire and eating chocolate:
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| The refreshments included a hot cocoa bar with hot chocolate made from scratch |
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