OKTOBERFEST FOOD AND FUN

Sure it was cold Friday night but our dinner and evening was warm and cozy.
Who was there ?
Pierre, Paul ,Karine our winner, Fannie, Maryna ( one of our chefs )Marie-Luce, my over-excited kids and myself.
My kids were so happy to see my guests . They know Karine because she is Félix-Antoine`s Taekwan Do model .
Karine is a 16- year- old black belt who can smash wooden planks. He`s totally in love with her.
Marie-Luce babysits my kids once in a while and I don`t know what she does to them but literally see her in their soup.I`m even a little jealous.
Marie-Luce was a bit late because she had an emergency appointment at the dentist`s due to infection after having her wisdom teeth removed last week.
We knew she`d be late and promised to cuddle and spoil her. We did.

Maryna ( our tall German exchange student ) showed me the ropes for our German meal while Pierre was responsible of our piece of meat ( main course ) and the thick gravy that accompanied it. Mission accomplished , it was delicious.
I had prepared the dessert the night before and was a bit disappointed with the look of my Bavarian apple cheesecake torte.
Turned out tasting delicious despite its look.
I also had a choux à la crème chocolate wreath which just blew everyone away.
I still dream about it.
My objective was to fill everyone up with great food till they had a stomach ache.
Mission accomplished.
We left the table at around midnight.
We talked about lots of different and crazy stuff then moved to the glasshouse, tea in hand and chatted some more.
By this time, Marie-Luce who was on strong antibiotics was happy and high as a kite.
We talked about their upcoming prom, their potential dates, prom dresses etc.
Before the girls left, I asked if I could take a group picture in my Metallicar ( Mustang ) .
Pierre took the pictures despite our goofing off and laughing. Half an hour later we had tons of great and funny pictures.
Karine and Fannie took off in their car while I drove both Maryna and Marie-Luce home.
When driving Maryna back home she asked me if I could go shopping for her prom dress with her and with tears in my eyes, I accepted and promised.
What an honour.
These kids are like kids to me and that just proves it a little bit more.
I also pomised Karine and Fannie homemade caramel for their snow day in Ottawa next week.
I had given Fannie a jar before Christmas for help she had offered and obviously enjoyed it.
She calls it Annie`s Orgasmic caramel ( baptized by a certain Science teacher who helped Fannie eat the caramel ).
I promised and offered to add a homemade loaf of bread to go with it.
How I love these kids, let me count the ways as a certain poet once wrote....

Again ( I know I wrote this before ) , I`ll try to post pictures of our evening.
I think I `ll need the assistance of another well-known Science teacher because computers and me do not always get along. What should normally take a few minutes always takes forever .
I`ll ask my favorite short cut to assist me.

Finally a big HELLO to Karine, Maryna, Fannie and Marie-Luce.
You guys did win a dinner at my place but quite honestly I turned out to be the real winner in all this . I had a fun and especially a very memorable evening.
Thank you.

Félix-Antoine`s quote of the evening : imagine my son whispering in my ear in the kitchen just the two of us.
" Mommy, I like it when you have guests and all but I really find it difficult because you `re not concentrating on me enough while they are here. " And that was while I was running around serving my guests and my kids who were halfway through their meal when I hadn`t had one bite yet.
I took a small breath, smiled and told him I totally understood and that I would make it up to him Saturday and Sunday.
I seriously consider cloning myself sometimes.

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