Merry Christmas!
This was our first Christmas in Toronto, surprising actually, considering we have been living in this city for 7 years. But for 7 years we've headed home to the Alberta prairies to celebrate the season with our families. Christmas at home is always wonderful and we try our best to cram in as many visits as possible with family and friends. It was strange to think that we would not be able to see everyone and enjoy the traditions that our parents had established. Today we experienced Christmas in the big City and it was pretty good! We started the day with stockings and banana chocolate chip pancakes in our jammies. Then headed downtown to watch a movie. Christmas day is opening day for a number of shows - we chose to watch 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' it was a great way to spend the afternoon.
We had a ham roasting in the slow cooker while we were out so were greeted with the smell of dinner when we walked in the door - nice! Normally I cook Schwartes hash browns whenever we have ham, but decided to try potato pancakes from my new Giada De Lorentiis cookbook. This was a good project for a relaxed afternoon - as it took a few times to get these just right and each pancake required about 12 minutes to cook on each side - so I was glad that we did not have hungry guests waiting! Our meal was delicious but it did not really feel like a true Christmas Dinner...I suppose that it will always feel this way if we are not at home amongst the hustle and bustle and the endless spread of delicious food.
The New Year will bring us a new addition to our little house so we did our best to savour the quiet atmosphere. We are already talking about next Christmas and how fun it will be to celebrate with a child - we will certainly be heading home to share this with our family and friends in 2009. We missed you all today!
Lots of Love,
Carmon and Cheryl
3 comments:
We missed you both terribly at Christmas... but alsa we all have to establish our own traditions. Next year will be an exciting Christmas season with a little one... and we can't wait to have you all back on the prairies for Christmas 2009. Lots of love, and Happy 2009. XOXO
You two are the cutest. Can't wait to see your belly on the 1st!
xox
Christmas with a little one brings a whole new meaning to the word Christmas, let me tell you!!!! I can't wait for Dylan to be EXCITED for Santa and the gifts he brings. He was not happy to sit on Santa's lap this year at all, maybe next year. The opening of the gifts was fun but like everyone always says the paper and the boxes where more exciting then the gift which was still a moment to treasure anyway!!!
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