It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Naptime

Day One of the long-awaited visit from my Girl was wonderful!  We didn't even leave the apartment - caught up on sleep, laundry, and decorated for the holidays.  Then we cooked dinner together - my Girl marinated the chicken and we cooked it on the grill pan; had some steamed zucchini, our special "brown" rice, and of course sweet tea.  The big treat of the day was that Sir had to go to France for a work training, and he arrived home at suppertime with a genuine French baguette.  We sliced it thickly and had it with butter along with our meal.  Delicious.....and we still have leftover steak with sauteed mushroom and onions, "grandma" potatoes and steamed veggies from last night, plus yellow cake with chocolate icing!  We are nothing if not well-fed.

Tomorrow, we're venturing out to the shopping district of Heidelberg.  Thursday, we'll be taking some quiches to a special program for PWOC, and then taking five derby pies to Sir's unit Christmas party at night.  Friday we're cooking a ham for Sir's office luncheon, and my Girl and I may join some chaplains' wives for a field trip to Wiesbaden's Christmas Market.  Friday night we're going to an abbreviated Messiah concert in the huge cathedral downtown, and then seeing Heidelberg's Christmas Market in the square beneath the castle.  Saturday, we're going to take my Girl to Rothenberg to see this ancient walled city and the spots where part of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was filmed in 1968!  Sunday, we have church and then a holiday drop-in at the US Army Europe Chaplain's home, where we'll take some cookies.  I'm ready for a nap just thinking about all of it.

The traditional star-placing - I have a photo of her doing this every year!  No, she is not 8 feet tall - she's standing on the windowsill.  The graceful jump from there to the loveseat was nothing short of astounding.  Who knew any child of mine would turn out to be a leaper?

The End.