9 December 2007

It's the season for angels and so it's appropriate to include one on our blog. This is a photo of Suzanne, Brandan's medical assistant. She understands the demands of Brandan's work better than the rest of us, puts in equally long hours and is enormously kind. Suzanne loves Christmas and Christmas music and came with us to the First Presidency Christmas Broadcast and to our house for dessert afterwards.


December 6 is St. Nicholas Day and around here that means waking up to chocolate in your shoe. If you're Brandan, that means nearly 2 pounds of really delicious Swiss chocolate in your size 10 loafers. The kids get less, proportionate to the size of their feet.


Becky made a Buche de Noel, a traditional Christmas cake, for her book club this week. She cut off the end of the cake to leave for Brandan and then Abe frosted it for him. Stump de Noel, maybe?


The finished dessert-- rich chocolate cake filled with white chocolate mousse, covered in about a half inch of chocolate ganache and decorated with meringue mushrooms. The dessert was a big hit at book club -- perfect after our dinner of chicken salad and vegetables.