It's Christmas! Day 13: Grinch Night

It’s Christmas! is a 25 day blog and vlog segment that I’ll be doing this December to bring you crafts, reviews, and ideas to make your Christmas season even more fun this year (especially, with this pandemic thing we’re all trying to navigate).

Hopefully, my family can inspire yours to not let this crazy year ruin the holiday season for you.

Sometimes, you just need to snuggle up with your kiddos and have a movie night. Well, one way to make that even more fun is to do it under a blanket fort. We transformed our entire living room in our basement into a giant blanket fort where we ate food and watched a Christmas movie. We usually make much smaller forts, but decided to make a huge one this time so that we could all fit under it, including our dog. So, what movie did we watch? Well, the Grinch, of course! We ended up only having enough time to watch the 1966 and the 2000 version with Jim Carey so I was told that we're going to need a second Grinch night in order to watch the 2018 movie and the musical version. So I guess be on the lookout for that.

To make it even more special, we didn't just have a regular dinner, we made a Grinch-themed smorgasbord. We had Grinch chips and salsa, Grinch kebabs (grape, slice of banana, strawberry, mini marshmallow), a veggie tray Christmas tree, and pretzel bites (made with mint truffle and dark chocolate kisses and either a red or green MnM on top). Everything was delightful!

To make the pretzel bites, we layed out a bunch of pretzels, placed kisses on top of them, baked them for 4 minutes at 250 degrees, smooshed an MnM on top right after they came out of the oven, and then threw them in the fridge to cool for about 30 minutes. Since we decided to use 2 different kinds of kisses, we put green MnMs on top of the mint truffle kisses and red MnMs on top of the dark chocolate ones. That way, we could keep them straight while eating them. We did learn that the mint truffle kisses melt A LOT faster than the dark chocolate ones so if we make these again in the future, we're only going to put them in the oven for 2 minutes.

I want to hear from you, today. What kind of fun holiday traditions do you have with your family? What are your favorite movies to watch together? Let me know in the comments.

And as always, from my family to yours, Merry Christmas!