I just finished baking a giant cookie cake. Basically, I take the recipe for Nestle Toll House Morsels and bake it in a cake form. I reduce the chocolate by half...and use a dark chocolate bar chopped up into chunks. Tomorrow night is the last night of my English course (that I teach) before we break for Christmas. I like to celebrate a little with sugar and butter, as well as chocolate!
Tonight, I am also mopping up the laundry room and entryway of our little house. We don't have a proper garage and it is too cold to work on flat tires in the driveway, so Kevin has been fixing up our bikes in the laundry room. Since we haven't installed anything in the area yet, it actually worked quite well to haul out the laundry drying racks, cover the floor in newspapers and sheets of cardboard, and have room for a single bike up-ended. It is also warm and bright....this helps with the difficult task of taking off the wheels to repair the flats. Kevin did a great job of post-bike-repair cleanup. I just thought the empty room made it a good moment to wipe up the floor in the spirit of getting ready for Christmas!
Sean is enjoying his new kindergarten. Over the weekend he got to bring home a little Christmas Nisse doll for a short visit. The Christmas Nisse called Julenisse are the type that cause trouble at home if you offend them. If they are happy with you, they can help watch out for the house and the farm animals. Sean's little nisse doll liked Sean very much. He sang to her and told her stories and tucked her in bed at night. The biggest troubles were that she dropped all my noodles out all over the kitchen floor and tickled Kevin's ears when he tried to nap on the sofa. Today Sean returned the nisse girl doll back to his classroom and got to tell the stories of the trouble she got into while at our house. Tonight, another child has taken her home to see what adventures she has there.
So far, this is the closest we have gotten to snow. A frosty morning:
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