First Xmas (exactly) at the Age of 5 Months

Everything is peaceful and quiet now. The Xmas tree lights up the room, there are Xmas films on TV without intermission, Xmas songs still ring in my ears. There’s no trace of the crazy fuss. It’s time to relax and enjoy every moment of the rest of the holiday and of the rest of the year of 2007! Dominik is sleeping, Krisz has a rest as well. Deservedly. Well-earned rest for both. Krisz helped me a lot yesterday, he’s a real goodhusband, did the honours of the house and spent time playing with Dominik. Parents were invited for dinner and we did the dishes and the preparations with our whole heart. The festive board included two kinds of soup: turkey stew with tarragon, thick soup made of maroon with pure Canadian marple syrup on top. Then fish in breadcrumbs with mashed potatoes, roasted fish fillet in creamy sauce with dill, sirlion with vegetable rice balls and tartar sauce… Although there were comings and goings more than enough, Dominik adapted himself to the circumstances very well (new people, rousing him from his sleep, different bath-times, etc…) and was my right hand.

Advent Season

Preparations are getting on slowly but surely in course of time. Part of the honey cake presents are ready although this part was made through 3 days. First day mushing the ingredients together, second day forming and baking (improving considerably!), third day frosting. Things going on quite slowly where there is a little one – we don’t want to have a pang of conscience because of spending not enough time with him/her, so we try to make good progress step by step. Additionally, the highest temperature is around zero so we can’t spend much time outside.
And to top it all, an indigestion balked my plans last weekend in spite of the fact that Xmas is not here yet. It was a serious one and my physical condition was ghostlike comparable with my state of health during pregnancy. I was pulled down and got between the sheets for 2 days. Thank God, Dominik is fine and it didn’t influence over him and his feeding. Many thanks for Mum and family for their help and for doing for him.

Santa's coming...

We’re preparing for Xmas feverishly, although rather in thought than in action. Very soon we need to carry into execution. I’m going to prepare more presents made with my own hand this year, mainly honey-cake / gingerbread specialities. Cinnamon and cloves smell sweet during baking! I’ve already planned the festive menu. I can’t wait the holidays mainly because of Dominik. He certainly will love the sparkling lights, the colorful decoration, his first Xmas tree. If he has all the vaccination, we'll try the swimming that is for babies. They're crazy about it as I heard and said to be asking the mothers for going to swim if they could speak. We'll see.