St. Lucia Day...

It seems like this time of the year

is always crazy busy...

a good busy,

a memory making busy..

but, by the first of the year,

I am always more than ready to slow down

and just be!

~

December 13

we celebrated

St Lucia Day with our traditional

breakfast in bed.

This year all the holiday festivities were

super fun

because Elsie is old enough to remember

all the fun little things we do every year...

Everything we did was met with a

"we do it like this every year"

It made me happy!

We enjoyed our traditional breakfast meal...
baby pancakes
with frosting on the side for dipping
pineapple slices
and
lemon water...
all served on the fancy little
glass china dishes.

And since St Lucia is known as the

saint of Light

our breakfast tray aways

has a lit candle...

next year Elsie will be old enough

to have a wreath of candles on her head

and to be the server.

This year our Bed was the living room floor...

Throughout the entire

Christmas season

the kids have slept on the floor in front of the

Christmas tree...

just one more fun little memory for them!

We ended our Breakfast with some

little St Lucia colouring sheets...

{which they never finished colouring}

and I tried to read them the

meaning of St Lucia day

{But it wasn't very interesting

and I slowly faded out and they never noticed!}