Deliciously Daugherty: Can I Just Toot My Horn For A Second?

I had bought this stellar, used dollhouse off a yard sale for $10. Totally stoked...until Piper accidentally saw it in B's trunk through some secret opening in the backseat....um, who knew?? Anyhow, I was bummed because Santa was going to bring that to the girls, so now we were kind of out of luck.

Did the girls REALLY need something outside of their Santa bags? No. But it's a tradition that I grew up with that I liked, so I started stressing, like on Christmas Eve at 11 PM stressing. What could we do?

Wait....we could do this:

I had canvases, I had paint, I had SOME skill in drawing....and I had the ambition AND desire to paint three pictures for my sweets the night/morning before Christmas. Not only was I proud of my accomplishment (and Bryce's....he helped me paint), but the girls' faces the next morning were priceless. It wasn't a dollhouse, no, but it was something they would remember for a long time.