We're trying hard this year to teach our kids about different cultures, religions, countries, etc. So for the first time St. Nicklaus came to our house last night. He filled our running shoes with nuts in their shells, christmas socks, 2 candies each and two christmas pencils. We learned about dark chocolate being what most europeans eat so we were not surprised to find Ghiradelli's dark chocolate variety's in our shoes. ;-) And to top it all off, I'm taking the kiddos to the Arlington Christkindl 2nd annual German festival tonight, I thought it would be the best day to go learn more about German holiday traditions.
I have pictues of the kids enjoying Flammkuchen (German Pizza) at the Christkindl but I can't post them until after the adoption finalizes. We also had Schmalzkuchen (scones) and wassil. Yummm!
We shopped, we learned, we tasted, we listened, we played, we had soo much fun being German for the day. We even got to see St. Nicklaus himself, although he had a strangely Texan accent. Humm?!?
And tomorrow we'll be moving on to another cuture to study...we are having Challah at dinner in honor of Hanukkah
Sounds so fun!
ReplyDeletevery cool and very fun! Shabat Shalome! (it's what you say on Shabat....it falls on Friday....I have a LOT of Jewish clients!) I have learned so many things about their holidays and traditions! Some of them are so very beautiful!
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