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!
