The Merriment of Christmas Crackers

Christmas is closing in quickly, and this year I am taking a bit

of a different strategy. Less about gifts and more about the 

fun that Christmas can bring when you get together with your family and friends.

For our family, we have always had such fun with the simplest of 

things, the Christmas Cracker.  I am stacking lots of the festive

crackers in my silver punch bowl so party goers can help themselves!

Inside the cracker is a paper party hat in the shape

of a crown along with a toy or a joke.  The laughs start

as soon as the crowns are donned, and in our family, our

heads tend to run large, so many times we have a split crown 

that needs a little tape to keep it together.  

It is one of my favorite things we do at Christmas.

If you have never tried them, you can find them in many colors

and patterns at HomeGoods or Marshalls.  

With two parties at our home this week, I have to run out and buy

some more today.  And get a few stocking stuffers.

Hope your holiday season is bright and happy and 

you find yourself without the dreaded flu or cold.  Its 

been running around here and I am keeping my fingers crossed

we will all be healthy for Christmas.

Baby Reeve will be coming and I can imagine us having to 

give her little paper crown a tuck so it fits.

Happy Christmas to all!