Christmas foibles

So, Toby was pretty sick over Christmas so it really wasn't as festive as it might have been at all. It has made me more determined to have a festive January.

Requirements:
Gingerbread latte (buy syrup from Starbucks)
Baking and making mincemeat
Carols recorded in a cathedral
Red, green and sparkly things
Snowflakes
Snowmen in one form or another
A party
Penguins
A welcoming house.

With that last one in mind, I'm off to unpack some boxes. I'd like the house to be mostly normal by January 1st.