Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! To all our beloved family and friends: you know we miss you and wish you all very warm holiday greetings.
As some of you know, we had a fellow expat come stay with us for a
few days at Christmas. This is Maria, our friend Tatiana's daughter, who has been living in Darmstadt, Germany since May and feels she has found her new home. We had a lovely visit with her and I was happy to have someone to ply with holiday goodies. And our Christmas brunch: Swiss chard and salami frittata, fruit salad, Stollen that Maria brought from Germany with her, fresh coffee and juice (although I certainly missed the loud happy Christmas at home with the huge Christmas
breakfast spread in Marion -- I hear Kaye's orange rolls almost rivaled Grandma's this year). Maria came on Christmas Eve at 4pm and Rand picked her up from the train station while I finished putting away the groceries I'd been collecting all day, cloth bag by cloth bag, going back and forth from the store with as much as I could carry. Luckily the store is just right around the corner. And was it ever so busy on Christmas Eve! You see here our dining room with the romantic large windows, high ceilings, plaster walls and ambiance. Across the road is the park that houses the Grand Casino. The flowers on the table came from Rand's "West Virginia Dad" -- THANKS ROB!! And we have the few Christmas cards that found their way to Switzerland at the last moment in the window. Oh, and I almost forgot the very special orange cookies from Sue that also made it overseas, a bit crumbly, but definitely delicious. Thank you everyone.
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