Happy Epiphany...

Epiphany, or 12th Night was yesterday so we made a king cake to commemorate the event. Epiphany is a holiday that celebrates the supposed day the 3 Kings found the baby Jesus (I think). Mostly, it's a time for me to make a wreath-shaped cinnamon roll and hide a teeny, plastic baby doll (to represent the baby Jesus) in the dough. The cake is sliced and whoever is lucky enough to get the baby in their slice, receives good luck for a year. I feel like it really ends the Christmas season for me as well. Here are the kids and the king cake. They are each holding a teeny baby Jesus.

Merril cut the cake since I knew where the baby was hidden.

Maxine's piece had the baby hidden in it and she was very excited. Juliet started to cry and went to bed right after. She was tired.

Jack was playing with a different baby doll and made it look like the baby was crawling over his piece of cake.

We finished taking down all the Christmas decorations and cleaned the house today. Ahhh. I never mind the decorations until they disappear. Then I sit in my clean house and feel relieved that it's all gone. I debated getting some Valentine's Day stuff out but I don't think I'll want to clean it up next month. So I might just skip Valentine's Day decorating this year.