The advent season 2011 is a very special one for
us for several reasons. Firstly, it’s the first time Jakob is undergoing the
lead time to Christmas (almost) fully aware of the meaning of it as both in the
kindergarten as well as at home he is learning why we are celebrating this
special time and he also made the first acquaintance with the Nikolaus last
week Tuesday. On the past weekend the three of us tackled the project "Christmas
cookies" with Jakob both rolling out the dough as well as cutting out the
shapes. Not surprisingly his endurance is still rather limited and thus we
focussed on cutting and baking the gingerbread cookies as well as preparing the
short crust on Saturday afternoon. Sunday morning Anja joined us to bake the short
crust cookies and Jakob was all happy to play around with dough, flour, his
rolling pin and the cookie cutters and even more glad he was about
"tasting" the dough before reaching the oven as well as the finished
cookies as soon as they came out of the oven and have cooled off a bit
Making cookies is big fun and tasty!
As this Christmas we are not only awaiting the arrival of the birth of Jesus
the advent time is lived by us in real. Any day our daughter could join us,
whereas currently everything is calm still. Obviously we are a little bit
nervous and also curious as to whether she is going to be born on the estimated
date (December 22nd) or whether she will be a real "christkind" born
on December 24th. In any case - we are ready and prepared - on the weekend the
boys finished the last necessary bit and assembled - and whenever she is ready
she can come. Let’s see when that is going to be the case - we are looking
forward to her.
Jakob, Kerstin & Markus
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