Day 25
The Gift(s): A set of cookbooks.
Today we had a going away party for our exchange student, Nina. All of her host families and many of her friends came to say goodbye. It is hard to even write this without missing her. The most difficult part of hosting an exchange student is saying goodbye for the last time. No matter how much time goes by, I miss all of the students we have hosted. We will miss Nina deeply.
Nina loves to cook. We spent many, many hours cooking all kinds of traditional Danish, French and American meals. Our daughter Alison, returned from her year on exchange to France with fantastic French cooking skills and she has enjoyed sharing her skills with us - so the three of us have really enjoyed cooking together, feeding the masses and watching the delight on the faces of our guests as we bring out course after course of spectacular food. Nina, by the way, does not like the word spectacular. But spectacular is one of the best adjectives to describe what the three of us cooked up.
When Alison was in France, she also enjoyed cooking traditional American meals for her families and has shared that some of her fondest memories are those of preparing a Thanksgiving meal, baking chocolate chip cookies or brownies for her families - or whipping up macaroni and cheese that I would occasionally send her. She brought as a gift for her families a cookbook that we have used in our family for years. I wanted Nina to be able to share these same types of fond memories with her family in Denmark - so what better than to give her a couple of cookbooks. I really enjoyed giving this gift and hope that it will provide her many, many more hours of fun cooking for her friends and family in Denmark.
❦ Giving creates memories.
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