Celebrating St. Nicholas

We celebrate good St. Nicholas on his feast day, December 6. This year I took the kids to “Breakfast with Santa” the weekend before while Adam was on a retreat. On the feast of St. Nicholas we had friends over for a party. We read St. Nicholas books, made bags of food for the homeless, and decorated St. Nicholas cookies. That afternoon the kids also had a choir concert at a local nursing home.  At the end of the day the kids opened their stockings. I filled them with gold chocolate coins with pictures of St. Nicholas on them and a little St. Nicholas chocolate. Their big stocking gift didn’t arrive until the next day. This year the kids got prayer pillowcases. Therese got the one of St. Therese. Fulton got St. Michael the Archangel. Gianna got Our Lady of Grace. And Cecilia got Our Lady of Guadalupe.

And since the next day, December 7, was the feast of St. Ambrose, we used the leftover cookies to make St. Ambrose and I also made some yummy beehive rolls!