| no gifts this year! yep, i am a real scrooge, huh? (can i use that metaphor?)
because me and the kids celebrate both chanukah and xmas, and my sons b-day falls in the middle of it all, i felt that buying more gifts seemed overwhelming. so i started a tradition of making my kids' gifts every year. usually there is a theme: one year it was origami creatures and on the last nite i gave them a book and a pack of paper. one year i wrote out simple recipes they could make and turned them into a book on the last nite.
i am starting to run out of ideas and things i can create. but i had a great idea this year to make them each a graphic novel starring themselves. unfortunately, that is a big task and the holiday came so early i couldn't even get started. so i sat them down and told them i couldn't get it together. instead we played games each nite, had a fire, that sort of thing.
total hijack:
have you ever seen the book, "hershel and the hanukkah goblins"? its by eric kimmel. it rocks. great read!
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