Merry X-mas to everyone!

I wish everybody a very merry x-mas!

Lately I was busy with the x-mas preperations. Besides having to go to work almost ever day I baked some cookies, wrote the wish list to santa, cleaned the place, baught a x-mas tree (it is german tradition to have a real tree), went grocery shopping etc.

On the night before x-mas eve I decorated the tree (it is also german tradition to not have the tree up before the 24th) and helped my hubby with the dinner preperations for the next evening.

Finally: X-mas eve! It was wonderful. To see the childs glowing eyes when seeing the x-mas tree for the first time. To find a pile of presents, left by Santa, under the tree. And the fun of opening them all!! (Another german tradition, opening presents on x-mas eve) Those are the moments where childhood memories come up and make one feel warm around the heart.
We had a delicious dinner. Duck, red cabbage and caramelized potatoes. For desert: ris alamande (rice with almonds - VERY, VERY good!!).

Afterwards I felt like a stuffed duck! But a very happy stuffed duck!!