Christmas

This year's Christmas celebration was greatly hindered by my catching a particularly strong bout of food poisoning. I will spare the details save this: I never thought I would willingly ask (beg?) for an IV and openly submit my arms to the dreaded fishing for a good vein. (I am notoriously hard to poke and this time did not relieve that reputation.) Still on the mend, but doing much better.

With our dining table in the living room (we are still moving in!) Grama Carolyn shares a pre-dinner salad snack with Annabelle a couple nights before Christmas. I was finally able to finish sewing Annabelle's teepee and had that set up for her that morning as a surprise. (And it is amazing to see that Annabelle finally loves salad as much as we do!)

Here Annabelle squeezes the juice from Clementines to make sorbet with Oma Shirley the day after Christmas. New recipes and all things cooking are enjoyed here and making the sorbet was a fun first! (And now I yearn to have my own sorbet maker to do the same!) The new Clementines (also called Mandarin Oranges) are the first citrus that Annabelle has ever been able to tolerate. She truly enjoyed the fruits of her labor this morning with a bowl of homemade sorbet for breakfast!