in our kitchen

we have been busy the past few days

:: cooking soup for dinner is one of my favorite activities. root vegetables and what ever needs to be eaten from the fridge

:: cooking for fewer people as some of folks of our community have left the past few weeks. instead of 13 people we are now just aobut 10 people sitting regularly around the kitchen table

:: the big two kitchen helpers have been very busy with christmas cookie making. here it's the "basler brunsli"

:: an other evening, when the girls sat around the kitchen table to make "gewuerz igeli" and "schokolade kugeln"
the filled tin boxes are slowly getting more and more in the basement.

:: sitting down with a mug of hot spiced cider and enjoyed to read a story  to thea

:: homework has been on the more creative side for the kids. amos was the most fortunate, his teacher wanted the kids to either do their math homework or bring a little sampler bag of the home made christmas cookies.... (i really liked that one)

:: tomorrow is german conversation group with the neighborhood women, we will be making sugar cookies... the dough is ready and decoration candy will come out tomorrow as it would have been super hard to keep the kids from wanting to do the cookies already!

:: with advent being in full swing, it's heart warming to enjoy the for now two candles being lit on our wreath. with that reminder christmas is not far anymore...