We began our family tradition for “Christmas dinner” in 2020 with the All Day Nibbles. This year, we decided to progress on our memory tree. We have a number of Travel ornaments, and hope to add lots more! We plan to update this post yearly as we add to the tree.
First it was shoe size. Last year, it was weight. In the new year (2022), it’s the height.
Slide show for one of his gifts [click the arrows to scroll through]. Hugs and kisses all around!
This year, the kids wanted to decorate Easter eggs since they had memories of doing them with Aunt Mary one year, and with Grandpa another year. This time around, they chose to hard boil the eggs before decorating; and they came up with some new ideas. They also requested an Easter egg hunt with money […]
The same friend who talked me into hot pot meal for celebrating Chinese New Year last year loaned us a divided pot for our meal this year so we could have two different flavours of soup. Happy New Year!
Since we have to stay home, the kids got creative for the event.
Because of school, Lara asked that her birthday celebrations be moved to Sunday Jan 10th. She asked for kuih ketayap for breakfast, which we had, but have no pictures of. After breakfast was opening her gifts.
After weeks of above zero temperatures, it started snowing on Christmas Eve. All that explained why the kids were so busy on their own and with strategic help from us over the last few weeks! Many thoughtful homemade gifts. After all that, we were ready for lunch! At dinner, everyone toasted with beer non-alcoholic sparkly […]
With covid19, we actually celebrated his birthday at home for the first time in many years. Nolan insisted on a 13-layer cake with icing between the layers for his cake. I had to use a little poetic license to achieve the goal.
His request was for a chocolate-vanilla-chocolate-vanilla layered cake. I figured interpretation was up to me. 🙂 Hugs all around! Bonus: with covid19, I had bought cream cheese the week before in case his request turned out to be chocolate cheesecake. So we had a chocolate cheesecake the following week. 🙂