I am at it again...more crafts, cakes, baking and preparing. Oscar's nieces have their 15th birthday this weekend. I am in charge of the cake...cakes!
My biggest worry is that I won't have all the kitchen comforts of home to decorate...meaning...I won't have a table, a counter, lighting and a stove that I can work well with. I will have a wood burning burner and a wood-burning oven. I will have one table that everyone else will want to use! I will have many kids running around, touching, sneaking licks of frosting...and to top it all off...it is supposed to be freezing cold, around 30ºF and rainy. That means that we are all together huddled in this small, smoky, farm house kitchen!
I am baking the cakes here at home and taking them up frozen.
The night we get back we will have visitors from Argentina and the whole next week will be a blur.
We had visitors last night and I made 10 homemade pizzas! With my left over pizza dough, I made some cinnamon and nut rolls.
It's winter break...but I am cooking and working like there's no vacation!
I'll post some pictures later!
1.My sister-in-law is using the wood stove to make fried tortillas for about 50 people. 
So, on one of the coldest and rainiest week ends of the whole year we went to San Pedro to celebrate two nieces 15th birthdays. The guys butchered the cow while the ladies prepared for the massive cooking! I was kneading 25 lbs. of flour/bread. Oscar was chopping wood for brick oven. Then...we started cutting and cutting.
...A glimpse of the Paraguay River from our bedroom window...
Last weekend we were in San Pedro for Oscar's nieces 15th birthday party. The uncles butchered a cow. I made the bread and milanesas (500 milanesas!) These are pictures of baking bread San Pedro Style. No trays...we use banana leaves and bake them in a tatakua...a brick oven.
These are some of the ways we are keeping warm here in Paraguay...wood burning stoves and máte!