Making Memories

I have a lot of memories of things my family did as a child. Some of my favorites are the dinners on Christmas eve. We have been making lots of memories with my kids. Well at least I hope we have. We bake a cake every year for Jesus' birthday and go to Grandma and Aunt Alicia's house every Christmas eve.

Another of my favorite memories is putting up the Christmas tree with my family and being able to look at all of the ornaments and knowing the story that was attached to each one. My favorite always has been my dad's ornament. It was always the last to go on the tree and my dad was always the one to put it on. I'm hoping to instill something like that in my children.

Now for the fun part. Every year the teachers at school would send home little ornaments with us kids to go on the tree. Mom looked forward to it every year. We homeschool so I am now the teacher in charge of all those cool gifts. I decided to work on salt dough ornaments this year with the kids.The recipe was really easy:
2cups all purpose flour
1cup salt
3/4 cup water ( I ended up using almost a cup)

Mix flour and salt together. Add water slowly. Mix until if makes a dough mixture. Make your ornaments. Bake in oven for 20mins at 200degrees. Really simply and really fun. The kids had a fun time. we did some for our tree and for all of the grandparents trees.