We have been entertaining family and ourselves with lots of celebrations of light! All the traditional foods have been made - spinach cheese ravioli with a red and white sauce for Christmas, breads for Solstice and latkas for Hannukah. The focus this year has been on experiences instead of presents - we just did stockings and lots of day trips (more pictures later). It has been lovely.
For Christmas day we were worn out of cooking, but not of eating, so we went to Frankenstein's Castle (an inspiration for Mary Shelley's scary story) and had a huge German Christmas
feast. Below is our attempt at a family picture - Ben did awesome for the whole dinner (there was lots of playing outside in the castle between courses) - but when the camera came out it was all screams!
5 comments:
Hello and happy holidays! I'm so glad you were all together to celebrate! Miss you! I can't believe I'll be there so soon! xoxoxo
Thanks for sharing your Christmas memories. Uncle Olie and I spent the holiday downstate with the kids. Our traditions are changing, but the Christmas spirit is alive and well among the Olendorf clan. Everyone is healthy and happy.
Best wishes for a prosperous new year!
We miss you guys! and now I've subscribed to your blog so I get your updates directly to my e-mail! Our xmas was definitely an experience of presents in abundance ...lots of games and toys to be played with all year long.
Priceless excited and surprised faces while unwrapping gifts, that was my present.
but I'm totally jealous of your date in the woods! :)
See you on skype in 2012!! wish you a happy ending to 2011! Love, Natalja
We miss you guys! and now I've subscribed to your blog so I get your updates directly to my e-mail! Our xmas was definitely an experience of presents in abundance ...lots of games and toys to be played with all year long.
Priceless excited and surprised faces while unwrapping gifts, that was my present.
but I'm totally jealous of your date in the woods! :)
See you on skype in 2012!! wish you a happy ending to 2011! Love, Natalja
hi elaine, thanks for your comment. so i hope we'll get to meet you in may when we come back to DA! we'll be there almost all summer long, till mid August. guten rutsch ins neue Jahr! herzlich, karola
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