Busy Bea

Rive Gauche roses @ The Meadow

Kristina B. Salmi Klotz

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Holiday Lists 2011

 

 

treats:
Eric Kimmel author reading of his new book Golem's Latkes
Oregon Symphony holiday children's concert

latkes & sour cream
olive & cream cheese penguins

 

Hanukkah party with friends in Happy Valley
pomegranates & clementines
decorating cookies with homeschoolers in Amboy
layered Italian almond cookies (with homemade almond paste!)
homeschool cookie exchange
sea salt caramels
Finnish pulla

 

homemade gravlax & Swedish limpa bread
oat cakes, quince paste, salami, Papa's favorite olives, & CHEESE!
Grandma Cam's cookies shipped from North Carolina
Christmas Morning popovers
homemade baileys irish cream
malfatti con burro e salvia (spinach dumplings in a butter-sage sauce with homemade ricotta)
Papa home for eleven days in a row!

 

things found in Bea's stocking:

Nighty Night Tea (how did he know, mom?)
orange fizzy bath powder
unicorn & penguin Japanese puzzle erasers
pick up sticks
a real fountain pen!
watercolor pencils
metallic colored pencils
modelling clay
and a baby emperor penguin finger puppet named Cheep Cheep

 

things that didn't happen:
ginger bread houses
lighting the candles all eight nights
mama's favorite maple pecan caramel corn
pumpkin seed brittle
going to mass
snow

surprises:
carolers!