There is a nice smell coming from the kitchen. Petra has just made a chocolate cake, topped with cinnamon frosting - yummy! Have some, folks!
It´s a smell of Christmas, although both of us are not (yet?) in the mood for it. Time for a not so little poem?
When the snow falls wunderbar
And the children happy are,
When the Glatteis on the street,
And we all a Gluhwein need,
Then you know, es ist soweit:
She is here, the Weihnachtszeit.
Every Parkhaus is besetzt,
Weil die people fahren jetzt
All to Kaufhof, Mediamarkt,
Kriegen nearly Herzinfarkt.
Shopping hirnverbrannte things
And the Christmasglocke rings.
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Hear the music, see the lights,
Frohe Weihnacht, Frohe Weihnacht,
Merry Christmas allerseits?
Mother in the kitchen bakes
Schoko-, Nuss - and Mandelkeks.
Daddy in the Nebenraum
Schmucks a Riesen-Weihnachtsbaum.
He is hanging auf the balls,
Then he from the Leiter falls?
Finally the Kinderlein
To the Zimmer kommen rein.
And es sings the family
Schauerlich: “Oh, Christmastree!”
And the jeder in the house
Is packing die Geschenke aus.
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Hear the music, see the lights,
Frohe Weihnacht, Frohe Weihnacht,
Merry Christmas allerseits?
Mama finds under the Tanne
Eine brandnew Teflon-Pfanne,
Papa gets a Schlips and Socken,
Everybody does frohlocken.
President speaks in TV,
All around is Harmonie,
Bis mother in the kitchen runs:
Im Ofen burns the Weihnachtsgans.
And so comes die Feuerwehr
With Tatu, tata daher,
And they bring a long, long Schlauch
And a long, long Leiter auch.
And they schrei - “Wasser marsch!”,
Christmas is - now im - A…
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Hear t
