I'm a couple days late posting photos, but better late than never, right? It's been a busy couple of days....Here's the kids hard at work decorating the Yule Log on Saturday, our day to wrap up our Yule/Winter Solstice celebration. The Map Man took charge of this project, while I ran around taking care of last minute holiday details.
Our finished log, in the fireplace, waiting to be set ablaze. We'd feared that we might have trouble getting the log itself to catch -- it was a large log (needs to be, it's supposed to burn for 12 hours!) and was only cut from a fallen limb that morning (so it was aged, but out in the elements so we feared a bit wet). But turns out it was no problem, with a bit of very dry oak beneath it.
J admires our Yule blaze! We ate a picnic supper around the fire, which the kids thought was really fun and a great way to celebrate the holiday. Definitely will be part of our tradition from here on out!
The kids open their Yule gifts. I left it to their imaginations as to who may have left the presents in the tree. When they asked, I just said "Hm, I wonder..." and The Map Man's only answer was "There's a lot of magic around this time of year." Zoo Boy said he thinks he knows, but wouldn't divulge his thoughts on that. Each boy got an owl finger puppet, which they played with for most of the evening. Preferably this would have been a hand-made gift. Next year!
Then we popped popcorn over the fire (and in the microwave so that some of it was actually edible!). We had planned to string some of the popcorn for the tree, but we couldn't come up with a needle!! (Shows how much sewing and hand crafts I've been doing in recent years -- I used to be quite the crafty gal, but that was pre-kids. Need to get back to that at some point!) So we ate the popcorn instead (we'll make some to string for the birds when we move the tree out to the deck after Christmas), and read some stories before the boys' bedtime. The Yule Log was still going strong as we snuggled in bed to sleep.
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