Sam & pies

We’ve never had a Christmas tree before as we’ve never spent Christmas Day in Manhattan – we’re always somewhere else. But now he’s got old enough we decided to get one for the kids, so a couple of weeks ago the lad and I wandered round the corner to one of those temporary stands the city sets up each Christmas for these mysterious blokes from somewhere else to sell Christmas trees. We only got a very modest one as we had to have it up high so a cerratin little lady doesn’t grab it.

Anyway Miles decide his name should be Sam, after we discarded ‘Dave’ on the grounds we already have an ficus tree called David, which was also his suggestion. He also chose all the decorations and put the star on top.

And to top it off, for his Winter Festival at school today we made our first attempt to bake that British Christmas tradition into submission with mince pies, which we made from scratch (well the filling only).