done with Christmas at last

Tonight I got the kids together for one last project before our couple of remaining Chrismas decorations go away for the year. We've got a Christmas tree skirt that we update every year with the kids' handprints in gold fabric paint. So we spread a bunch of paint on a paper plate and picked a spot for the 2005 version (new! improved! now even bigger!) of their hands.

S managed to take a sliding swipe at his spot, so his hands look as big as C's. Last year anything remotely resembling a handprint was "a clue!" to him (because of Blue's Clues) so we wrote that next to his print (which turned out much neater than this year's). C did a cartoon to go along with hers last year, but this year kept it to just a plain signature (though she did draw little sun's rays around the "e" her name ends with, because she says that her classmates leave it off).

So, once that dries, it will get put away along with the last of the Christmas cards we had hanging up, and the nativity set. Don't worry -- we did get the tree down a long time ago!