Our last Christmas day cooperated nicely with the weather so the snowstorms disappeared and rain fell instead.
We had the regular socko Christmas dinner that Mike and Lorrie always tag-team. both of them are to-die-for cooks and we are the appreciative recipients..
Then we switched to Thai style for New Years Eve.
I am blessed with amazingly warm and intelligent daughters-in law and this good fortune continued when #3 son married Aw.
There are lots of reasons to love a Thai daughter-in law. For starters they treat those of us of the older persuasion as if we are goddesses.
In the case of Aw (short for Ladawan) she is a brilliant Thai chef and she makes her husband (my #3 son) happy.
She goes along with all our Christmas traditions and probably rolls her eyes at Buddha calmly observing from the altar in the bedroom.
Back to new year's Eve.
We live in Ontario and Thai time is twelve hours ahead of us.
So...
We gathered at Steve and Aw's place before noon, ate lavishly,laughed and teased and were done by three in the afternoon.
How's that for a sane and all-encompassing new year?
Using the magic of Skpe, Aw talked with her family in Bangkok and Steve talked to them in his pigeon Thai while she tactfully translated.
He's pretty good we think, but she just smiles. Anyway, he's more accomplished than we are.
So there we are--another year and we all squeaked by intact.
We'll see if we can do that again this year.
1 comment:
Happy New Year to Pat....Loved the photos...so nice.
We did make it to Waterloo in October and I am so sorry I didn't see you but we found my sister and brother in law needing us close-by. They are both not in good health. We did get out to Elora and Margaret and I went shopping for quilt fabric in Guelph one morning. Otherwise we stayed at the house and enjoyed helping out and visiting.
You look great and happy....so nice.
Hello to Steve for me.
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