A Somewhat Impromptu St. Nicholas Day

Being that St. Nicholas is the patron saint of both my husband and one of our sons, I had grand plans for quite the celebration. A special breakfast, a new paperback in each stocking, a St. Nicholas picture book, a stocking craft complete with "gold" (gold wrapped Hershey's kisses), santa shaped cookie baking, and a Mediteranean themed dinner. Ahh such plans....

Then I woke up this morning and glanced at the calendar. Now let me just say that I did realize that Dec. 6th was the feast day of St. Nicholas. What I did not realize until 6:30 am this morning was that TODAY was Dec. 6th! It snuck up on me, unprepared to carry out my plans. So the special breakfast was out. We did read about St. Nicholas out of our Picture Book of Saints and found modern day Turkey on our world map. We had to go run errands today anyway, so we stopped by the bookstore and let each boy pick his own paperback, plus we picked a book to donate to the toy drive. We picked up our bag of Hershey's kisses (had to settle for silver) and ended up grabbing lunch and eating at the park. After we came home, we put little ones down for a nap while the older two made their stockings to hold the "silver". Then we made our Santa cookies.

And now it is after 4pm and I am exhausted! The house is a mess. Yet we still have had a great day together, although I am thinking that we will not be having that Mediteranean themed dinner tonight after all!

Oh well! There is always next year! Happy St. Nicholas Day everyone!