German apple pancake...

...where have you been all my life?

It is marvelous, really, how you can mix eggs, flour, milk and apples, and end up with something like THIS.

We cheated a bit, and opened some of our presents early. I prefer it that way; I get terribly overwhelmed when I have to deal with a mount of stuff, and then a huge mount of ripped and scrunched wrapping paper. The wrapping paper really gets me: it looks awfully sad and ugly.

On the other hand, I love to wake up on the day after Christmas, and see a pile of new books next to my bed. My most favorite landscape.