Roni ordered the powdered sugar donuts, but did the fillings himself. I made latkes of ever improving quality, and the two of them were our dinner Friday night. We've since added vegetables so we won't die by the end of the eight days.Sunday we drove to a tree farm to get our Christmas tree, our first time cutting our own since I was a kid and we cut a couple of spindly trees on our property and put them together to form one decently bushy tree. It was kind of fun wandering about looking for the perfect tree - it had to be round, not too tall, not too wide, very straight, and not be one of the expensive types (I'm tree cheap). We found a perfect grand fir, compared it to all the others, declared it the winner, and then realized that we'd left the camera in the car. Then discovered the batteries were dead. Then discovered after charging the batteries that the camera was dead. So, no pictures of Roni cutting down the tree, but he did a masterful job while the rest of us sipped hot chocolate and gave advice.
Then home, via Costco for a new camera, where we put the kids down for a nap. Roni headed out to the pump house where he tried to change the filter but instead broke off the filter and the pipe it was attached to. Oops. So, no water for us for the next 24 hours.
When the kids got up, we had a great time getting the lights and ornaments sorted out and everyone put some on. J's favorite is his Snow White apple from last year during his crazy-for-Disney phase. D really likes the glass panda since he sleeps with his panda bear every nap and night.
So, an expensive day, what with electronics and plumbers, but in the end a lovely one.
That's a beautiful menorah that J is lighting!!! And its so strange to see an actual string of lights these days. I use a fake tree, so my biggest decision is whether to use the one with colored lights or white lights!
ReplyDeleteSo adorable! I have been hearing about Lynne's latkes on Facebook-- (she was in our sorority in college). Anyway, she makes potato latkes the first night, then the other nights she makes vegetable ones-- with different flavors like curry, etc. Sounds kind of yummy, but her kids would rather stick with tradition . . .
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kerry - I bought the menorah as a present for Roni a couple years ago. We always have a live tree because I love the smell. Except in Israel, where it is hard to get trees. We made a paper one once, taped to the wall.
ReplyDeleteLloyanne - next I'm going to try sweet potato latkes. I'm dubious about curry flavored, but willing to branch out some.