Monday, November 26, 2007
International Night
Recently we had the pleasure of attending one of our homschool group's functions-International Night. Every family (or child) picks a Country and makes a little project about that Country. Then they make a native dish from that Country and even dress up if they have the right attire. This is our third year participating: the first year we did Holland, the second year-Canada.
This year we did China. Since the Chinese
culture is so vast though, we concentrated on the language.Then during the event, all the kids were given 'passports' and they had to go around to all the Countries to find answers to the questions inside. Here Sammie is deep in thought (hense the puzzled look).
The dress I am wearing was actually hand made and tailored in Beijing, China. My Uncle Doug went to China this year to help his Chinese sister-in-law get a visa and while he was there, he had this dress made for me. I love it!
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Thanksgiving
Well, Thanksgiving is now over (both of them- ha ha). It was very nice. Again this year, I cooked a traditional Ringle Thanksgiving meal. About a month ago, I thought maybe we should skip the hassle and go out for Thanksgiving. But as the day approached, I wanted more and more to have all the items that I remember from growing up. So on Monday, I headed to Food Lion and picked up a 13.5 lb Turkey (the smallest I could find), ingred.'s for stuffing, cranberry sauce, the must-have cauliflower dish, and ingred.'s for Thomas Jefferson Biscuits. It turned out to be about the right amount. We had leftovers, but not too many.
On Friday, all the women/girls in the family go shopping! So we met up at Aunt Grace's house (my Chinese Aunt) and left from there. Mom rode with me and the girls while everyone else piled into Heather's van. I had a great time with my Mom! It felt just like old times.
