For New Years Eve we had a party with the kids. I prepared a bunch of different fruits and Emily helped me to make a few fruit dips. We wanted to have fun but not eat a lot of junk food. Everyone loved the fruit and dip. The favorite dip was blueberry lemon. I whipped some cream cheese with stevia, lemon juice and grated lemon rind. Then I stirred in some simply fruit blueberry jam. Lastly I whipped some cream and folded it into the blueberry mixture. It tasted so good some of us ate it without dipping fruit in it.
After the fruit feast we played games and danced to Bulgarian folk music. We really had a good time.
A few years ago we started a family tradition of having Diado Muras (Grandpa Frost) come to our house. When Ivan was growing up in Bulgaria they didn't celebrate Christmas. The communists transferred most of the festivites surrounding Christmas to New Years. Comming to the States New Years is a real let down to Ivan so we started getting together with other Bulgarian familys on New Year's day and also began having the Bulgarian Santa come to our house. He brings just one gift to each child and a game for the family. The kids get so excited when the gifts "appear" under the tree sometime durring the day. They are never sure if he will actually come or not so it is a great treat.
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