The Line of David: Getting ready for Christmas

Well we haven't had too much going on lately. I'm just getting ready for Christmas. Our team is having our Christmas dinner on monday night and then we're doing a small seafood thing on Christmas day. I'm making a ton of food for us this year, i'm hoping this year will go better than last year.

Last year i didn't pay attention to when the stores were going to be closed. We hadn't been here long and i just figured they'd be closed for Christmas and that was it. Well turns out they close very early on Christmas eve, then Christmas and the next 2 days. And when things close here, everything closes. I think gas stations are the only thing that can be open during holidays and every Sunday. So last year i didn't make it to the store on time so we ended up going to the arabic district and found one last piece of salmon at a fish market and some potatoes. So we had salmon Christmas day and potatoe soup the next 2 days. It was pretty sad. So this year i'm going all out with sweet rolls, cookies, green bean casserole, creamed corn, ham and plenty of other stuff.

Here's a couple pictures from the past 3 weeks...

Emma and her new rubber boots for all the rainy days, she loves these things. Her new favorite word is "gut gemacht" (well done) but she also gets this mixed up with "gute nacht" so she goes around saying "gute macht" it's pretty funny!