In the week between Christmas and New Years all the available Jarbh ladies of all ages got together for A Doll's Christmas. We had a beautiful mini dinner complete with Cornish game hens and miniature cutlery. We did manage to include the Arkansas branch of the family via Skype. Everyone brought a doll and introduced their dolls around before dinner.
With the teenage nieces and nephews getting around to doing fun things with friends on New Year's Eve we decided it was time for a change of plans. Instead of a late night gathering we had a morning activity. The teens planned it and were helpers through the activities. Breakfast (prepared via short order cooks), puzzles, unique DIY party hats, games, and more! Each person had a ticket to have "stamped" at each activity. Then at the end everyone who did enough activities (well, actually we just did everyone :) ) got to pick a wrapped white elephant gift.
There were some fun music activities in the music room with all sorts of instruments. See? I was there too! Little J was taking some experimental steps towards being a grown up walker (which he has been for some time now). Sabrina got the chocolate bar as part of her white elephant gift.
When it came to the actual changing of the year, this is what it looked like. We sat at home watching something together, probably on Netflix. The girls gathered more and more blankets and cuddled up until they were barely awake. Happy Drowsy New Year!
