St Nicholas Day is coming up on December 6, so put your shoes out December 5 and maybe you will find treats in them the next morning. This is one of the few overtly German customs we have left in our family. German-Americans had to give up a lot of their traditions when they were perceived as the “enemy” in 2 world wars. You could be turned in just for subscribing to a German-language newspaper. I have no family recipes for schnitzel or strudel, but I will put my shoes out.
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| For the rocket boys |
I don’t want to bore you guys with nothing but pajamas, but I also want to send jammies to my nieces and nephews in time for St Nicholas Day. So, today I made rocket pajamas for the boys who recently got robot pjs. I love this fabric. It has a similar retro quality to the robots, but with such great vivid colors. I hope they like em.
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| Not really helping. |
Fergus was a lot of help. For some reason he thought the pattern would work better if he was underneath it.
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| Hiding her eyes |
Eventually he settled down for a nap as did Felicity—both snuggling under the table at chairs opposite each other. I love when they roll themselves up into little napping balls of fur.
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| Fergus as a pretzel |
Tomorrow I hope to raid Costco for baking supplies. I want to make some spinsta springerle, gingerbread, chocolate chips and a few new things. So I will be going out to get a lot of eggs, butter and cream. Since I don’t have people at work to palm these things off on, I guess I will just have to mail them out to faithful blog readers.
Moratinos now has a resident German, so we all are going to her place on 6 Dec. for Sintniklaas -- lebkuchen, gluwein, YUM. Because of my German heritage I am bringing the stöllen. We may be commiting simulataneous international baking!
ReplyDeleteLove all the PJs!! Would love to buy a pair for myself! Will you be taking custom orders on the Etsy shop? Cris could use a pair of lounge pants that are the correct length for him as well--they're always too long & my machine is in the closet (out of sight, out of mind!) so I never get them hemmed. He's too old for the shredded hem look! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI do expect to offer pjs on the Etsy shop, Page. :)
ReplyDeleteHave a great time with the Sintniklaas (which looks like Dutch to me, not German?) Reb! Simultaneous international baking. Not quite breaking international maritime law, but we're old dude, aren't we? :)