A Post for Aunt Emmy or A Cry For Help

January 6th, the Epiphany, is the day of the Kings or Wise Men. In France, we celebrate this day with a nice tradition. You eat a special cake (I told you it was a nice tradition) inside which is a special object, called santon. The person who gets the piece of cake with the santon is the King or Queen (and that person has to bake the next cake and it goes on and on, very nice tradition indeed).

Anyway, the special cake is supposed to be a galette, but since there's no chocolate in galettes, I always make a chocolate cake instead. This year (like every year I suppose) I left the decorating part to Keld. And here is what we got:




I admit I probably would have done worse. Now, we hope that Aunt Emmy can see how much she is needed in Timmins! It's true, Mom has been taking classes on decorating cakes, but still, if you ever want to move, Emmy, we'll have work for you!

Think I Can Do This?

I always send my family tons of pictures every week by email but I never really explain to them the context behind them. So I thought I would start a blog because I like how my American sisters put comments with their pictures on their blogs. (I don't think I can do it as well as they do, but I'll do my best).


I thought maybe my English speaking side of the family might be jealous if I only had a French blog, so here is the English version. I don't know if you will be interested, I'll see with the number of comments, but I already have two fans!

Christmas 2010

It was Julia's first Christmas at the school. With her classmates, they had a little play. 

We also celebrated Christmas at church.

and at home and with more family!

Joyeux Noel !

Winter 2010

 

This winter, Keld built bunkbeds. They're like a castle, the towers are shelving units. 

We kept our culinary tradition.

 And we dressed well.

Happy Birthdays

33, 4 and 2!

Joyeux Anniversaire !