Nutcracker ballet. We attended the 7:30 pm show because it was the only one we could manage between my call week and the band's gigs. We made it through the first act.
First snowfall. I made a Dutch baby in a cast iron skillet for breakfast - so pretty and so delicious!
C loves oatmeal raisins cookies - those were our second baking project.
Playing "beach" for several hours.
Christmas Eve. Pancakes and bacon for breakfast; grilled cheese for lunch; Ferdinand at the movie theatre.
Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies for Santa. These are pleasantly salty.
Of course I wanted them to wear their Christmas pajamas but somehow all (all 10 pairs?) of their pajamas were in the dirty clothes basket which is why they are each wearing a dress.
Christmas Day in WashMO.
Josie in her happy place - being held by Uncle Brett!
After our toast the girls sang "Skumps!" from Sleeping Beauty.
"Take my pitcher while I hold her."
Ballerina costumes.
Stay-home day with Daddy playing with the Christmas haul, including a Play Doh mold set. "Josie's making a fish."
Sous vide ribeye / carrots splashed with avocado oil and sprinkled with ras el hanout spice blend.
Pre-party Costco run. Luke waiting in line for a churro.
First pour over coffee!
Breakfast in a tutu.
All dressed up for Cinderella at the Fox. The best part of the show was on the on-stage costume changes from rags to ballgowns - when Cinderella's white ballgown was revealed, Josie exclaimed, "Her dress looks like mine!" and everyone around us laughed.
New Year's Eve Eve. After Cinderella and a fun pizza playdate with friends, we hustled the girls home for bedtime. Inauspicious sign: Josie had an accident which rarely happens. I changed her clothes and brought her into our room. She was restless, flailing around, and agitated -- somewhere between a night terror (she has those occasionally) and a feverish dream - "Mommy, there is a monster over there!" she kept saying. Luke took her temperature - 102 - and that broke with one dose of Tylenol. Eventually we got (some) sleep but I awoke congested with allergies and already tired. My parents came over at 9 and we all went to First Watch for breakfast. The girls went to WashMO overnight and I came home for the day-before party food prep: pressure cooking and shredding chicken into the mole I made earlier and starting a batch of sous vide carnitas.
I popped over to our friends' NYE party and came home early for a very quiet evening of tidying up, reading (Gold Dust Woman: the biopgraphy of Stevie Nicks), writing on the blog, waiting to shred the pork. Luke came home late from his gig and then we were up and running for our New Year's Day get-together, theme: Every Kiss Begins With Queso! Jenny came over for party prep. 👏
I was having too much fun and this is my only photo: the post-party clean-up of five crock pots and a three-dish warming tray. We cleaned up and drank the open bottle of wine and had a 90s pop radio dance party. 2018 is off to a great start.
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