A White Christmas?

For the last week and a bit, it has actually looked like Christmas around here. I LOVE IT! Although it is cold, and that isn't always fun, it has meant that the snow has remained. It has snowed all of today as well, but I am hearing rumours that it will be getting close to the zero mark and that makes me nervous. Please, not before Christmas! With all the winter weather, I was inspired to do some Christmas baking. I like baking, but with previous years, working and what not, I have never done Christmas baking. Yesterday I made shortbread, honig kuchen (which is actually cookies), and butter tarts. I rounded it off with Italian Chocolate Panafort (similar to an eatmore bar) today. Hopefully everyone wants to dig in this Christmas, I know my pants are elastic at the top, but there is only so much that can be blamed on the baby.

Katie's First Christmas Pageant

Last Sunday was Katie's first pageant. This year the two year olds were not little wandering sheep, but Bethlehem children (with Camels). Although we practiced and could sing and do the actions for all the songs, there were too many people watching and she decided she would just watch everyone else. Katie is not afraid to be in front of people and did great. She even decided to say hi to Oma, Opa and Daddy who were in plain view. Every year there is one child that does this, I must admit I never actually thought it would be ours, but it was and for some reason I am not surprised by this either. It was actually really cute. Overall the pageant was a great success and the front was full of preschoolers which is really good to see.