Happy New Year!
May 2011 bring joy, laughter and love.
Have a safe celebration or a wonderful evening at home.
Whatever you chose to do today, enjoy yourself.
Christmas
We had a wonderful Christmas Eve celebration. Our pilot was
home and we had a house full of family with his parents visiting and brother
flying in on Christmas Eve. As you have seen Grandma, our son and I were busy
baking cookies in the few days before Christmas Eve . On Christmas Eve I cooked
a semi traditional Polish meal and on Christmas day we had a tradition American
diner.
On Christmas Eve I served a Polish Ginger bread soup called
Mocka. It is made on Vegetable base with gingerbread, puréed carrots, parsnip, raisins
and almonds. It is an acquired taste so it was mostly for me. We also had a
wonderful Minestrone soup, battered and fried flounder filets, filet minions,
mashed potatoes sour croute with mushrooms and peas and broccoli. The meal was
served with eggnog . After we all enjoyed a wonderful diner I prepared a cookie
platter with the cookies we baked and dressed it up with some Christmas Candy
and oranges. We sat around and chatted, watched a movie and enjoyed some
wonderful family time. Right before bed Grandma brought down a present for our
son. It was a lovely bathrobe which he wore on Christmas morning. It is a
tradition that she had with her sons and I loved to see it passed down another generation.
Christmas was a mad house as there were so many wonderful
presents under the tree for everyone especially the youngest member of the
family. When we came downstairs, daddy had the fire going and he was beyond himself
when he saw what Santa brought. We opened presents and opened presents and opened
presents (as my son described his Christmas morning at breakfast. Breakfast
consisted of pork roll (also known as Taylor Ham and my husband’s absolute
favorite) and scrambled eggs of course served with toast.
After breakfast we played and chatted and watched the Polar
Express movie while the turkey roasted in the oven. For Christmas day diner mom
served a turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, broccoli, sour croute,
cranberry souse, gravy, fresh baked crescent rolls followed by a wonderful
apple pie and more cookies.
We shared gifts, laughter and most importantly most of our immediate
family was here to share this wonderful holiday and all of its traditions with
us. That is what makes the holidays really special.
Cookies Galore
My mother-in-law and son were baking cookies yesterday. I helped with some of the cleanup and preparation but it was grandma’s show. I really wanted for our boy to have that experience of baking with grandma. He loves to bake and he loves his grandma even more. Continued in Hanger Rats
Family
My parents-in-law are here for the holidays and we are
absolutely loving it. Especially my son who is loving the attention and company
of his grandparents. I wish our pilot was here to witness the beautiful
relationship that our son has with his parents but he is at work. Two more days
and he will be joining us.
It is incredible the bond that grandparents have to their grandchildren,
my son is eating his grandparents up they do all kinds of things together. They
walk Sally dog, go to the park, paint and today we will all be baking holiday
cookies. It is so much fun to watch him
play pretend and assign everyone a character – He is Lightning McQueen and
Pappy is King and Grandma is Flow and Mommy is Sally. It is incredible to see
how much fun he is having.
Watching my son with his grandparents makes me remember all
of the wonderful times I had with mine while growing up. Even though a lot of
our family lives far away and some overseas – he has never met that half, I
feel so grateful for the times we do get
to share and the memories we get to make. He talks for months about their
visits. The only thing that could make
this more perfect is our pilot to join us. Soon enough.
Traditions
Every family has traditions. When I was little growing up in Poland my family celebrated a very traditional Christmas Eve with a 12 course meal. Santa came on December 6th and the gifts under the tree were opened on Christmas Eve. My husband’s family celebrated a very traditional American Christmas where Santa comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve, the big meal is on Christmas Day and that is when you opened presents Christmas morning. Continued in Hanger Rats
Public Humiliation
My mother-in-law 12 and a half years ago said to me: “If I can give you one piece of advice for your years of marriage it is to never humiliate or berate your husband in public”. I took this and my father-in-laws advice not to ever go to bed mad to heart and my husband and I live by those wisdoms. Sure there are times I can think of one when I lost my cool with him in public or vice versa. I regret the incident because I remember it clearly it was in a grocery store 11 years ago and I was just in a bad mood, not excusable. I think that the no humiliating in public rule should apply to all members of your family not just spouse to spouse. Continued in Relationships
Santa
I am so excited that my pilot was home for visiting Santa. Santa paid a visit to the library today and we headed over there to visit him. My son was so excited when he first saw Santa he paused his mouth opened and his eyes got huge. He ripped out of my hand as there was no line my boy ran up to Santa and sat right on his lap. Santa gave our little Hanger Rat huge hugs and had talk with him about how good he was all year. Continued in Hanger Rats
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