Snow Day

Hello, Everyone :)
Long time no blog. So I'm going to start off easy with a little post about Oscars first encounter with snow :) I decided to come to Estonia to see my family a few weeks ago, and it was quite a rash decision which meant that I had a lot of planning and preparations to do in a very little time. This just meant that blogging was set aside to make room for more urgent matters :) But now I'm back in Estonia and settled in to the routine here I am quite confident in being able to write a bit again :)
I have only been in Estonia since last Wednesday, but we have been able to go out in the snow every day. And Oscar has loved it from the get go :)

Thankfully it's not actually too cold and it's also not too warm to make the snow all slushy and horrible. Most days it's around 0 degrees and it's perfectly bearable with appropriate clothing :) And it helps that my parents house is next to a nursery because their garden is full of stuff to entertain this little dude for a good hour :) He also likes to be dragged around on the sleigh and y 9 year old brothers sillyness :D

Hope you enjoyed this little simple comeback post and you will continue reading the future posts :)

But as for now

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xoxo

Meril

Christmas 2015

Good Evening, Everyone :)

It is Boxing Day and Christmas is well...OVER :D As much as I was excited about Christmas this year I am kind of glad it's all done. We had a really wonderful time with some nice presents and amazing food...cooked by yours truly...and now it's time to go back to reality and out of the Christmas lights. It's really only just the start of winter though and we've got some awesome plans during Januray and February so a lot to look forward to :)

 If you don't know it already then some countries celebrate Christmas on the 24th, which is what we do in Estonia. So on the 24th we had a little tiny family Christmas. I started cooking at 1pm and then after dinner at 6pm we were meant to open presents, but Oscar went to sleep incredibly early :D SO we did what English people do and opened our presents on the morning of 25th. After which we went to Dans parents house for some more festive eating :D We did open one present each before the meal though :) And Oscar got this Gruffalo trunki suitcase, which will come useful in January...hint, hint :D he loves dragging it around the house :)

Thats the picture Oscar took :D

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and as always 

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xoxo

Meril

Baking Gingerbread Cookies

Hello, Everyone :)
I remember when I was little, our Christmas tradition was to make gingerbread cookies with my sister and my mother. It was so much fun to roll out the dough and cut the biscuits out, eat the leftover dough :D and then once the house was filled with the sweet smells of cinnamon and ginger and the biscuits had cooled down enough it was time for decorating them with icing in every single Christmassy colour. And I couldn't wait until I can do it with Oscar :) I will admit, that he is still A TINY BIT too young to understand what is actually happening, but we had so much fun anyway :) He had fun sprinkling the flour and then eating it :S :D

I got the dough from my mom. They sell these small packages of ready made gingerbread dough in every single shop so I had her bring some to me when she came down :) It lasts for a really long time in the fridge and of course you can always just bake the cookies and store them in an airtight container for weeks :)

It was a pretty messy affair and obviously made even messier by the ''helping'' 15 month old :D

I went for the tarditional Christmas colours for the icing -  white,green and red.
I made the icing with butter and icing sugar. I mixed 2 cups of icing sugar with 3 tablespoons of orange juice and a few drops of vanilla and then divided the mix in three small bowls. I kept one simple and white and added green and red food colouring to the other ones. The red looks a lot like pink because it turned out pink :D :) The piping bags I used are actually just ziplock bags with a little hole cut in the corner. I don't like reusable piping bags only because I hate washing them :D You can really use any plactic bag you have, as long as it's clean and doesn't have any holes in it :D

And this is the end product.
Its was so much fun preparing them and decorationg them while the candles burned softly and SmoothXmas was playing in the radio :D

A great evening treat with a mug of mulled wine...what more can you ask :) Your child to maybe go to sleep at a reasonable time...maybe just that :D

Hope you enjoyed the post 

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xoxo

Meril