7th Day of Christmas and More of Our Christmas Day!

On the 7th day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five Golden Rings.
Four calling birds,
Three french hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

Now for pictures of our Christmas Day at my mother's house.

Those of you who know Dawn at Dawn's Daybreak will remember her posting this crazy game about the naming the Christmas Carols. Well, I decided to print up copies of it and try it out on my family on Christmas Day. My sister-in-law's comment was "Oh no we gotta earn our way to the Christmas presents!" In the collage above you can see a few family members working on it. It turned out to be a lot of fun with a lot of laughter. My mom just got to laughing herself silly over the picture of the peanuts roasting their chests over the fire. That just struck her as hilarious. We were wondering if she was ever going to stop laughing. It was fun for me to see everyone having so much fun with this. Thanks Dawn for the idea! !
I got a few pictures of the Christmas decor around my mom's house. This angel choir above was my godmother's. Who is also my mother's aunt. My mother just loves this angel choir. I hope I get it eventually, but my mother's sister also wants it too. The choir is sitting on a red cloth woven by my godmother on one of her looms.

These buildings are actual buildings in the town of Lindsborg, Kansas. Here we have the Swedish Pavillion, Bethany Lutheran Church and Timber Cottage. Timber Cottage is where I bought one of my nativity scenes and the gnome I displayed in an earlier post. My mother has more, but this was all she had the energy to put out. I told her when she was too tired to put them up anymore, she could give them to me. Hint, hint. :-) This is where my father grew up which is why this is special.
My mother has an apple tree also. She gave me the one I have. But this one is special. It was made my father's high school woodshop teacher. That makes this one really special. Mine is made by someone else and not as well made as this one. The little tray is a Carl Larsson art piece. She has a larger picture by the same Swedish artist. The coasters were made by me one year. I made those as gifts. That was a big job. I don't remember how many total I made. My mother has 4 of them. Two of each design. It is cross-stitch.

And now we come to the dessert. The best part of course! The Polish kolachkes and rice pudding with some Swedish Lingonberry preserve. Yummy!!