We are always a little hesitant to call in a young girl to watch our kids. Those 3 boys can be more than a handful and if Sophie is not in the mood... but our baby-sitter did a fantastic job, the kids really took a liking to her. They had a pillow fight, watched Brother Bear and played "freeze dance". I won't reveal her name on here, because we will be using her again and I don't want her price to go up... ;)
After a few errands Saturday morning, the rest of the weekend was pretty much spent in pajamas, watching General Conference, playing with the kids and snacking. General Conference is always such a relaxing and refreshing weekend. It seems to last forever, you listen to great talks, realize a few things you really need to work on and just get to spend family time together. We usually don't make the little kids watch much of the sessions with us, but Sophie joins us for the Sunday morning session. This time to our surprise she insisted on watching the Sunday afternoon session with us, too. Might be because she got to sit in our bedroom and practice her new found "sewing" skills on her American Girl Doll in peace and quiet!
We finished the weekend with what's almost become a tradition for us on General Conference weekend: Brotzeit! If you don't know what it is, you've missed out on a great and easy meal! It's a traditional Bavarian meal or snack and literally means "bread time". It usually consists of fresh bread, cold cuts, cheeses and whatever else can be consumed without having to spend half an hour at the stove! Everything is served on big platters and baskets and then everybody gets to fix their own sandwich/meal/plate. Then you just sit around the table, enjoy your meal and swap stories. Back in Germany my parents would often have relatives over and we'd spend hours sitting around the dinner table.
Our little ones usually have Elizabeth fix theirs or at least load up their plate with the pieces to make their own creation. This time it was Alex's turn to make his first sandwich by himself!If you can't tell, it's a piece of cheddar, than a cracker, piece of bologna, another cracker, some Baguette and you probably guessed it: Another piece of cracker!
As they say in Bavaria: Brotzeit ist die schönste Zeit! Bread time is the best time!
Sounds nice and relaxing.
ReplyDeleteHey, that's my favorite sandwich!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a yummy tradition. We were invited to breakfast before conference...their tradition...waffles with ice cream. We might have to adopt all of these conference/food traditions for ourselves!
ReplyDeleteHey, Herb and Elizabeth! I'm glad I can get to y'all's blog now! (Yes, the word y'all's has two apostrophies in it!) Elizabeth, I posted a comment to your comment on Kim's blog under my eulogy. It was very sweet of her, though!
ReplyDeleteHerb, I thought the phrase was, "Bierzeit ist die schönste Zeit!"
Donnie
Ohhh Conference weekend. I love it! What a great tradition.
ReplyDeleteI think your sandwich meal sounds so fun. I like your German name though far better then the English name of Hoagie sandwiches.
I was hoping to see a little picture of Sophie's quilt. That sounds right up Karly's alley.How fun for her. Did she actually have to use a sewing machine?
Yeah! We love conference weekend too! It's definately a refresher!
ReplyDeleteHad a GREAT time with you guys. We'll have to do it again sometime...without celebrating anything :c)
ReplyDeleteJen
Who dosen't love bread time? What a great tradition. Sounds like a really nice week-end.
ReplyDeleteFor all the times Elizabeth has promised to let me be included in brotzeit.......that picture is making me jealous.
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