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Hmm, January 6th today. Am I still allowed to write about Christmas? I hope so because it was a special one - Ramona's first!
Last year we spent Christmas Eve driving home from our
Italian Road Trip and didn't give a whole lot of thought to presents, stockings, or a tree. But we wanted to do things differently this year, because even if Ramona won't remember her first Christmas, we will!
We started off the holiday celebrations by picking out a Christmas tree. We went to the Marché de Noël, got some vin chaud (bien sûr!) and picked out a little tree of our very own.
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I was surprised by how many ornaments we've accumulated over the last 20 months! And we got even more this Christmas. Michael and I continued
our tradition of exchanging ornaments as presents and we got several "Baby's First Christmas ornaments from family. We have quite a haul to bring back to the States with us someday!
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Next, we took Ramona to meet Papa Noël. This was so fun! Every year Michael's company has a holiday party for the children and we were excited to take part this year. There was a (really weird) magic show, lots of sweets and games, and of course Papa Noël. Ramona was a good girl and slept the entire time we were at the party! Not even Creepy, Skinny French Santa could wake her.
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On Christmas morning we opened up some gifts, put on Ramona's new Christmas dress from Aunt Tori, and headed over to our friends Sam and Adrian's house for dinner. We had a traditional English spread with Sam, Adrian and their families. As it turns out, English Christmas dinner is a lot like American Thanksgiving dinner - turkey, potatoes, gravy, brussel sprouts, and more. I could not have been more thrilled, you all know how I love Thanksgiving dinner. We also tried some black pudding and Christmas pudding. Every time I asked what was in the black pudding, I was told, "you don't want to know." So we'll leave it at that! Thanks for the great night, Sam and Adrian!
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the pitter patter of little reindeer feet
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Merry Christmas!
I hope your holiday was merry and bright!
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By the way I know what’s black pudding… I had a doubt,just checked and yes it’s what I thought it was :s
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