Tad and I are attempting to give our children a nature-filled Solstice-focused holiday season. In this vain, Tad invented Winter Wendall when Coen was a baby. Winter Wendall is a winter wizard who has a long white beard and a crooked nose and lives in the forest in a huge old hollow tree. He comes in early December (on St. Nick's schedule) and delivers presents and candy to the kids' stockings.
He came this year along with the season's first snowfall and it was lovely.
Coen got a star wars toy and reader book. Lucy got a Hello Kitty coloring book and a wooden pizza for her kitchen set. Both got fairy food, peppermints and lollipops. Tad received a bottle of Sprecher Ginger Ale, a Mississippi Mud bar from the Public Market and a music magazine. I received a knit hat, a bag of my favorite candy and a sewing magazine.
We celebrated by letting the kids eat candy in the morning after breakfast and then going outside to play in the freshly fallen snow. Then we watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special and put up our Solstice tree.
Happy Winter Wendall, everyone!
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