When do you set up your tree? Our tree goes up at different times each year, although I usually try to wait until late November. Not this year though. The boys had a 4 day weekend over Rememberance Day, so the Monday that was off we decorated the house. We actually set up 2 trees this year, one in each living room.
The next weekend we started some baking. I have a recipe that my Oma, my Mom, Aunts and Cousins on her side make, and now I make it as well. It's a German Spice cookie called Speculaas. (Good luck with the pronounciation!) The cookies sit in a container with a Macintosh apple for a week or two after they are baked. They take on the hint of apple flavor, and along with the spices in them, they are probably our favorite!
Then, just today I made 'Oreos'. It's a recipe I got from a friend only last year, and they dont really need to be only Christmas cookies, but tinting the icing to red and green certainly makes them feel Christmassy. My boys have been reminding me all month that I need to make them! Most I will freeze until later into December, but i left a couple out for an after school snack today...I'm sure they'll be thrilled!
Cutting out the Speculaas cookies
The Oreo Cookies
Along with the Christmas season comes the SNOW. I'd like to write it as S#%W, since it's as much a swear word as any to me, but I know that without it, it wouldn't feel like Christmas already. So I'll suck it up and keep my complaining for after December 25th. ;)
Anyway, with the snow comes winter sports...Dustin is working on a BIG ice rink for the boys (hopefully it'll be ready by New Years... my brother and family usually come down that day, it would be fun for the kids!) and there are snowmobile tracks across our grass already.
Brad's class went Curling this week, which is a new sport to this family. As part of his gym class, he is going a few times over the next few weeks. I was able to go with his class yesterday, and I gotta say, his co-ordination "throwing" the rock does not comes from his mother! He did really well, and came away saying he loves Curling!
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