Jolly Ol' St. Nick

First and foremost, I finished another grad class tonight, complete with the 18 page final project. A good 15 hours (since Saturday) later, and the whole thing is done and over with. Yippee!! We (Kevin and I) celebrated with Chinese food.

Today, December 6, is also St. Nicholas Day. In Germany, little children leave their shoes out at the door and St. Nicholas (the actual Saint, not Santa Claus) comes and generously fills the shoes with nuts and tangerines and little gifts. Since I was little, St. Nicholas has always come to our house. As an adult, I introduced Kevin to this idea. The celebration really isn't for adults, but since it's just the two of us, it's nice to celebrate the holiday and to bring this old family tradition into my new and future family.

My parents sent us one of those tiered candle thingamabobs. I have no idea what they're called, but they're so pretty!

Kevin bought me a house for our Dickens Village. My parents also gave us trees to complete the scene. This is quite a change from the single cottage we had last year. This weekend, we'll put the tree up. In the mean time, the inside of the house is slowly coming together. My amateur photographer husband has taken the pictures below: