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December 2024 - January 2025 in pictures

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That's it, 2024 is over and 2025 is well under way! Here are the highlights of the last few weeks for our family. We were delighted to sing Christmas carols with the residents of the nursing home where Carolyn works, accompanied on the guitar by our pastor. For Christmas, Anna continued to develop her pastry-making skills by preparing a delicious praline and hazelnut Yule log. We spent Christmas with David's family in the Vendée. As always, it was a time of joy and good food. We stayed home for New Year's Eve. It was a good time to take stock of 2024 and share our aspirations for 2025, while enjoying the fine dishes prepared together. Like every year, January means birthdays to celebrate. Anna turned 15 🎉 Claire celebrated her 11th birthday 🎈, with her brand new (and imposing! 😉 ) Stitch slippers on her feet! Another way for Claire to get the year off to a good start was to exercise her creativity by taking part in a competition organised by her magazine Astrapi: she mad...