We just had a visitor at the door, sharing a gift of Belgian cookies and biscuits!
Last week we made some Christmas goodies, nothing to fancy, I'm not an expert baker and the oven is still beyond my abilities. But, we made some goodies to share with our Belgian neighbors that live on our road. Six containers of cookies in all. Even with our broken French, with the help of http://translate.google.com/ , we were able to have enough French to offer them the goodies, tell them "Joyeux Noel" and let them know we're the Americans down the road.
A few of the goodie boxes we just had to leave outside the door with the Christmas card, but they were picked up in the morning when we drove to school. The ones we were able to deliver in person, we received very well. Even after telling one neighbor that we didn't speak enough French to understand her, she continued to thank us and talk our legs off.
Now today, our "Egg Lady," brought us our ziplock container back full of Belgian goodies. There are little sugar cookies, small, sweet waffles and some crisp wafer-like cookies as well. We haven't eaten dinner yet, but I'm already planning on brewing some of my gingerbread tea and having some Belgian Christmas biscuits this evening.
Life is good.
Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel
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