North Pole Breakfast

We have been doing a North Pole Breakfast in early December for years.  I looked back on my blog and I think this tradition start in 2014 when Olive was one.  The details are flexible - date, menu, gifts - and the overall idea is the same - a special breakfast with the elves to kick off the holiday season.  I love to do it on December 1st if I can, but December 7th was the first day I could make it happen this year.  Again, we're flexible with details.

The kids were so excited to wake up to a gingerbread themed North Pole Breakfast!

I grabbed all the gingerbread stuff on after Christmas clearance last year and was so excited to use it this year.  We even had mini gingerbread ice cubes!

The kids each got some new ornaments with favortie things from the year and a mini gingerbread house kit.  Some years I've done pjs, new books, Santa hats, etc.  This year since we did it a little later, we just did ornaments and gingerbread houses.

This vase of holly branches from our yard makes me so happy!  I've been waiting for years for the holly bushes to grow big enough to trim them at Christmas.

Menu:
Christmas treats, bacon, eggs, apples and homemade nutella squares.  Come back on Wednesday for that recipe.

We hot glued the mini gingerbread houses together because that's the only way to do it.  Then the kids decorated each of their houses.

Do you do a North Pole Breakfast at your house?