Christmas Breakfast

The evening of Christmas Eve, I learned that the News team was also coming for breakfast too. Yikes! I hadn't prepared for them eating here, so that night I arranged for 2 Ayi friends of mine (who also helped at the Sock Party later that night, love them) to come in the morning.

This is where it helps to know Chinese. This is b/c I had to teach every 2 seconds (ie, how to use a mixer, what measurements to use, how spread, how to chop to what size, etc). I never left the kitchen, and made the dishes side by side with them (maybe their next boss will appreciate this training, no?).

However, when the Cinnamon Roll dough was ready to be rolled, that part they basically turned into machines.

Back away Suzanne! This is where they got serious. They got that dough perfectly rectangular and even width in about 40 seconds flat!


Here they are laughing at me b/c I was so so so shocked... they moved so fast their hands look invisible in the picture.

opening presents... after breakfast (pics not in order). The news crew came to film us for 'US traditions' for Christmas. Wish I had a copy of the tape so you could see everything that went down, lol. Somehow all 4 of us ended up chasing each other around the house with rocket launchers and nerf guns.

With the camera crew. They were here for a few hours.

Someone tell me why Chewy always is a feature in our home, no matter the holiday. How weird that might look on film as an 'American Christmas Tradition'...

Here's the breakfast. I made a strip in the center of the table with the symbols of Christmas, and pieces of paper between each object describing their significance. IE: the candy cane is the shepherds hook etc (including the candle, tree, present, bow, stars, bells, wreath etc).

And, Hunter presenting colored Star Wars pictures to the camera men, lol. Because every family does that on Christmas, right?

Then we quickly changed into our Santa clothes to make a visit to Tim's work. Tim dresses as Santa each year and brings gifts to his employees. This year was 'socks'... sensing a theme here?