Prettige Kerstmis en gelukkig nieuwjaar

... or, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Today I've been to the supermarket and got home before 9:30 am, with THREE kids! Does that not deserve some kind of medal?

I am in a flurry, but loving it!
In the kitchen department I've made fresh cranberry sauce.
I have finished the pistachio stuffing for my turkey. And I have everything set to make the potato gratin (I can say that cause we're in Europe, there's no potato bake happening for Christmas here!)

In the fabric sewing department, last night I made three softie 'Elves' for the kidlets. Still got to stuff the Ollie's. This doing everything in triplicate does make for a lot of work at Christmas...

I've made a red polyester satin Super Hero cape for the Wombat. He loves playing Super Heroes. Except he speaks Dutch when he is playing. In Dutch, the word for Hero is Held. But our boy says "head" instead, missing out the L. And he struggles with his "s" too, so says "Puper" for super. So he runs around the house saying "I'm a Puper Head" Which sounds remarkably like "Poop Head" when he says it 500 times in a row. My lovely little Poop Head needed a cape. He will be happy to open that one tomorrow morning.

We're having ricotta, raspberry and chocolate french toast fingers for breakfast tomorrow.

I can't wait!

OK! Back to that mandoline and bag of potatoes. And turn up the carols!

Fa la la la la!

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Wishing you all a very happy and safe holiday season. Can't wait to see what you all did, and especially to drool over all those summery feasts. It's raining here, so no snow for us this year.

Thank you all for reading my much neglected and very sporadic blog. I'm going to get better next year!

xxx