Ready for Christmas
It's Christmas Eve morning -- the Big Day, as far as I'm concerned. And I'm actually ready! I've got gifts bought and wrapped and everything. I still nead to clean up the kitchen after yesterday's frenzy, but then it's dropping off the dog, calling my family and driving to Houston.
While we started much later than usual, we did manage to do our share of Christmas baking. We started off with 200+ gingerbread cookies which Meredith and Rita helped decorating. Last Christmas we got the appropriate cookie forms from the CR, so we now made almost a hundred Beehive Cookies (Včelí Ůly). Jennifer baked some Peanut Butter Blossoms and Chocolate Clouds and I decided on a last minute that we needed some non-chocolate cookies and made Cinammon Stars (Zimtstern) last night. For some reason my Eurpean cookie recipes are always much more labor intensive than Jfer's recipes.
Yesterday, I also spent a good portion of the day making Vánočka, the traditional Czech Christmas bread that we'll eat today. I got the recipe and instructions off a Czech bakery site. They even have cool videos about braiding the bread in 4 strands and 6 strands. Maybe I'll try the 6-strand approach next year.
BTW, I've decided that the best thing about being multilingual is that you have access to way more recipes online than if you knew only one language. I don't think I'd dare sending a foreign language recipe through a google translation.
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I am thinking that you were a bit premature in your declaration of readiness. I read this entry early this morning. It gave me the feeling that you would be on the road in a few hours. I received a call after 3PM and you were just leaving. Don't mind me though, I am just anxious to see you get here.