A year in review

Cindy, at My Romantic Home , is hosting 2008 A Year in Review.
If you want to participate go there.
As for me, here is my year.

January



We were in England still, so I came back with lots of pictures.

Here, we can't see the little one because she is in front, on the push chair.



I miss it so much.

February
My blog Mrs L. had some problems and I had to begin another one: Alfazema.



March
We had such a wonderful Easter Day.



Easter time.

April



My 8yo First Communion.



The rose she gave to Our Lady.

May

My 8yo made it at school to give me as a present.

June



Two dozen red roses. My husbad gave me. Just because he wanted.

July



Dreaming about last year's holidays and waiting fo this year's. It was summer, it was hot and I was fed up of beibg working outside my home. I wanted to leave, to forget for some days. I wanted to go on holiday.

August
On holiday at last.







September



Autumn.

October



Our wedding aniversary. See the beautiful silver frame my husband gave me - and it was not our silver aniversary, we are married "only" for 20 years. It's quite big, even if in the picture it doesn't show.



A month full of birthdays: my nephew, my (now)14yo girl, me and my uncle.
My other girls birthdays are on January, April and June.

November
Thankgiving time. Very important to me because some 21 year ago my husband made a lunch for me, because he wanted me and I didn't knew him enough. So he made a lunch, invited a lot of people just so he could invit me also.

November is also the month when the first chestnut come to the shops. I like it so much.

December

Christmas time.

The Turkey

This year, our turkey is Turducken! I say is and not was because it's so big that we will eat it for days and days.

Tomorow my mother and father will come to have lunch with us and, even so, we will still have some.

But, do you know what is Turducken? It's a turkey with a duck inside with some sausages inside.

Ah, it's good. And funny.

All the process was a good time.

First my husband went to order one. He was happy with it.
The day after, the 24, we went to pick it up.

See here how heavy it is, on top of my old and so loved scale - my grand mother gave me before I married - 7 kg and half!

Then it was the pleasure of looking in the internet and all kind of cooking books the best time to cook it - around 5 hours, they said.

Well, what they didn't know was that our big oven, I wonder why, took much more then that to cook it what made Christmas lunch a bit late. Never mind. It was delicious.

See it here cut in half in the moment to carve it.
One half,

and the other half.

With roasted potatoes,

all kind of little cabbages, including cawliflower, red cabbage and savoy,

peas, sweet potatoes, etc., and gravy.

Very good indeed.

Christmas Feast

Just a quick post to show you some scenes of our Christmas lunch - made by my hubby.

About the turkey, I will tell you tomorow.

Merry Christmas

AND it came to pass, that in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that the whole world should be enrolled.
This enrolling was first made by Cyrinus, the governor of Syria.
And all went to be enrolled, every one into his own city.
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he was of the house and family of David,
To be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife, who was with child.

Luke,2

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The door has its wreath,



all the house is decorated, the tree is up and the crib is set.

Today I will kept doing tidy up - never ends - laundry an more shopping in the afternoon.

Tomorow I will be baking since the begining of the morning till late afternoon.

Then, we will go to my brother's house - and wife - to have dinner, the "consoada". There will be also my sister, her husband and boy and my mother and father. Also my brother's wife father, sister and nephews.

On the Christmas Day, after opening our presents and having breakfast, we will go to Mass and then home again for Christmas lunch. It will be in progress since before the presents and will be ready after Mass, when my mother and father and my brother and wife come to have lunch with us. Usually her sister, father and nephews come too but not this Christmas because they have other place and friends to go.
My sister, husband and boy won't come because they go to her husband's parent's house.



So, untill Boxing Day or maybe the day after, I will not blog again but I promise that after that I will post lots of pictures of my baking, the house, the table and everything Christmas related.

See you then and have a good Christmas.
God help us all, defend us and give His blessings over us.

A lot of things to do

I'd like to stay all day long on the Internet, visiting blogs, looking for websites all decorated with christmas things, looking for cookies recipes...

Well, but I have so many things to do so, get up and work.

. cleaning the cupboards doors - lots;
. cleaning the ;
. vacuum ;
. wash the kitchen floor;
. shine my sink:
. the same as above but with the downstairs bathroom;
. empty the dishwasher and put breakfast things in;

. tidy up my bedroom and make the bed - the master of the house was there when I got up so I didn't made it yet;

. scrub the bathtub;

. dust all things in the diningroom (& library too & my husband's favorite spot to work);

. tidy and declutter the laundryroom;

. put those already washed cloths onth eline and wash some more - lots more;

. fold and put away the ones that are dry;
. etc.

I have so many things to do that I, maybe, won't do everything.

I leave you now with some pictures of my Christmas tree.

In this moment I'm singing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and walking out of computerland.

Pink Saturday

My new pink saintpaulias or african violets.

They are so nice, I'm very pleased with them. When I saw them, I couldn't resist.

For Pink Saturday, at Beverly's.

Show and Tell Friday

My kitchen windowsill.



Isn't it lovely?



For Kelli's Show and Tell Friday.

Sky Watch Friday

No rain, just cloudy.

For Sky Watch Friday .

The sun came back

It rained. And rained and rained. Day and night. Day and night. We couldn't put our clothes to dry in the sun because the sun was sleeping. We are not used to dry everything in the dryer so I just did it with my husband's shirts and towels.

We kept looking through the window but all we could see was rain. A strong one.

After long days and nights of continuos rain, it stoped.
Can you see the rainbow?

So now I'm all happy doing laundry to put on the line. I think I will wash five machines. let's hope I'll have space to put everything to dry.

I'm happy also because my little girl is ok and my mother, who had a nasty cold, is better now.

Days are going brigther and I'm feeling more able to prepare everything for Christmas - yes, I'm late, I'm late.

Now I'm going to the kitchen.
More news tomorow.

Today's Flowers

My husband travels a lot. Well, this time he brought me these ladies slipers or little shoes, as we call them.

Aren't they amazing ? I just kept taling pictures of them as they are so beautiful.

He's hoping they last until Christmas as last years last, as you can see here.

Let's hope so.

For Today's Flowers