Our Sinter Klaas weekend has become a very exciting tradition. This year Sinter Klaas was on Sunday. On Saturday we got our tree, decorated it, and slept under the tree. On Sunday Mel cooked a "lekker" Indonesian dinner and we ate with Grandma and Grandpa (you may wonder why we are eating Indo food on a Dutch holiday--Dutchies eat Indo food like those of us in the West eat Mexican food; Indonesia was a Dutch colony), then right as we were finishing dinner, Sinter Klaas came and left a giant bag full of gifts on our porch. Oh, oh, oh! Were we excited. Sinter Klaas is so practical. He brought our Christmas PJ's, our Christmas books, and our Christmas T-shirts. He even managed to get a hold of Anna's old Christmas shirt for Sophie. What a resourceful guy. Then each child got a small toy. It was a fabulous weekend full of fun family traditions. 
Picking out our "fat" Christmas tree
Waiting so anxiously to decorate the tree. 
We couldn't wait, so we put the star on a few times first.
All done and ready to go to bed.
I forgot to take pictures while we were getting ready for bed and reading a Christmas story, but I had to get up after everyone was asleep and work on a lesson and do midterms, so I took a picture of the kids really asleep under the tree. 
Indonesian dinner on Sinter Klaas
Emptying the bag from Sinter Klaas
New PJ's
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sinter Klaas Weekend
Posted by Stacey and Mel at 7:44 PM
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2 comments:
Yay for Sinter Klaas. I have to say that I love his resourcefulness and your fat tree. Yay to seeing Auntie J and Uncle N too. Miss you.
i'm glad you explained the indo food thing, because i was a curious. and i agree with melissa, i'm loving sinter klaas' resourcefulness. i wonder if the scott's could trace their genealogy back to sinter klaas? maybe...
i think i might have to adopt the sleeping under the tree tradition. it looks like a good time!
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