Advent days

Time goes fast... sometimes.  It's the second week of Advent, now.  Dörte has had the apartment pretty decked out since Thanksgiving:  Window stickers of reindeer and sleighs, advent candles, and buckets of sweets just everywhere.  There's bread chock full of fruit and dusted with powdered sugar, called Marzipanstollen, or something.  There are little flaky, sugary biscuits called Dominostones, and there are a million different brightly wrapped chocolates.  As far as healthy eating is concerned, it's a minefield... but an admittedly festive one.

We've been doing Advent Sunday teas, where people come over at about 3 and we all sit around drinking tea and eating sweets and chatting.  Dörte will light an Advent candle.  There are four, and you can light one more each Sunday.  They are red and shaped like stars.  The tallest one started out first... maybe so that it can burn down, and by the end they will all be about the same height.

In other sweets-related news, I spilled a ton of honey on my computer last night.  I had made toast with peanut butter and honey, and the heat made it less sticky and more runny, and I ended up with a big glop of it right over the keyboard.  Ha!  Probably the worst thing I could have dropped on it!  The keyboard still seems to be working fine, though - just a lack of that satisfying clicking sound when I tap on the I and the O.  But it could have been a lot worse!  My sweet tooth is taking advantage of me.