Focus on Life: Week 51! Togetherness

OMG, it's week 51!! You know what this means?! We're almost done for the year. A year I learned so much about myself (and I was always prizing myself on how aware I am of everything :)) and I became a part of a lovely community of artists. Thank you, Sally, for a well thought challenge!

Week 51... can't say it / write it / think about it without sighing deeply. I did a lot this year, but a lot still needs to be done!

This week's prompt is 'Togetherness' - which only fits perfectly... as all Miss Sally's other prompts.

This is the time we get together more. As my hubby is working weekends, we have a hard time during the year to meet friends, so the 7-10 days between Christmas and the beginning of school / work is the one packed with togetherness. It is rare you'll find us idle from December 25th to January 2nd-3rd.

But for that to happen, there is another togetherness that must become: preparing for the Christmas!

• first we plan (if you click on the picture to make it larger, you'll see William's plan on the white board :) )

• then we bake ~ here we make the dough for the sweet bread

•  and here we have a special sweet with turkish delight

• then we cook - as you can see, the sausages are done, William is preparing the meat for the cabbage rolls

•  his way of preparing meat :) 

•  somewhere in between we get our tree - it has been cut by us for the past 3 years in a row (plus one a couple of years before) 

•  then we bring the tree home and we try to fit an 8 ft tree into an 8 ft ceiling height room. It's always interesting, and we always end up with a more trapezoidal shape than conic :) 

•  then we decorate the tree 

•  ... and after a few more days of cooking and baking we get the letter from Santa and maybe not coal in the stockings :) 

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are together with your loved ones!