December Chat

Hi, gals and guys on the internet AKA our online friends. How are you all doing?? It’s being a while since we made a chatty type post and we figured this would be the perfect moment to tell you all the things!

Let’s take a break from recipe posting and chat. Here are the things we want to chat about:

• We don’t have a Christmas Tree
• The weather in California
• Our YouTube Cooking Videos
• Our babies

We Don’t Have a Christmas Tree

Listen, we don’t have a Christmas tree set up. In fact, since we moved to the United States, we have not put up a Christmas Tree.

Why? Because life and Christmas have just been different for us. Things have not been the same.

Our family -(parents, brothers, sisters) are not here. We are not really motivated to put up a tree. And our Christmas celebrations have been very different.

Also, we have conflicting views about setting up a Christmas tree. While we love it because it makes the home look festive and all, we also don’t consider it a necessity.

We're not gonna lie: we feel a little left out and a little weird. We have even made plans for hanging some Christmas decorations just for fun but we haven’t gotten to it.

So if you don’t have a Christmas tree up, you are not alone. Lol

One of our favorite Christmas reads is this post on 15 fascinating things that happened at the birth of Jesus.

The Weather in California

We don’t think we will ever get over how good the weather in California is. Mama, we are taking walks in December! It is all dreamy to us!

We have felt like we are on a long vacation since we moved to California. We are not even joking. There are no harsh winters, snow blizzards or needing to shovel snow. We could live with this.

Our YouTube Videos – Where are They?

You guys, first we are so sorry for leaving you hanging on YouTube! The thoughts of not having put up a cooking video have been haunting us for a while.

We have actually shot a few videos but none of them came out the way we wanted them to. With Christmas approaching, we are working on releasing 2 videos to help with Christmas cooking.

Our Babies – They Are Growing So Fast!

Baby Essie just turned 1! Can you believe that? We are so emotional because of how fast she is growing. She is so chubby and sweet and we don’t want to lose our baby.

But we are also excited about seeing her grow! So our thoughts are so conflicted. Ah.

Taking pictures of Essie these days is a total struggle. She is always busy and can’t sit still.

She even tore her 12-month sticker. The sticker was supposed to be on her but we couldn’t leave it on her because she kept grabbing it. We just place the torn sticker on the chair and managed to take some pictures.

Salma also turned 7. This girl is as obsessed with cooking as we are and she is threatening to take over our kitchen!

Her big sister made her a crown with paper. She put alot of love into making handmade gifts for her sister’s birthday.

Salma requested that we make our lemon pound cake for her birthday. So we baked the cake in a bundt pan (we poured all of the batter into 1 pan and not 2 like in our recipe). We also made some lightly sweetened whipped cream to cover the cake and we added some fruits on top.

We have a few more birthdays coming up early next year. Once “birthday season” rolls in our home, it takes a while before it stops.

Now tell us about you: do you have a Christmas tree up? What are your favorite things to do in this season?

Here’s wishing you a great week and a wonderful rest of the year!