This particular cheese was one that we’d had last year as well, so on one hand there was a hint of familiarity.

What’s more, since we’d just had a séchon de brebis on Day 4, I was reminded of the fact that not only this year, on day 4, but also last year, we’d had trouble finding information on the word séchon.

But let’s dig into the cheese…

Today’s the day that Christmas came to our house.

As is often the case on Sundays, we dinner was the big meal of the day, after church, and Liz’s beef bourgignon was a treat that made onset of the Sunday afternoon nap come even more quickly.

When we awoke, it was time to set the tree up…

Tonight was one of those “Everybody fend for themselves for supper” kind of nights. Lots of leftovers (or “must-go^_s” as my mom calls them), so getting everyone together for Cheesy day 4, didn’t happen quite as organically as it does most nights.

… but it did happen, so here we go.

We saw the first honest-to-goodness snowflakes fall from the sky. Of course nothing lasted because there’s been no frost to speak of, meaning that they melted almost as soon as they’d hit the ground.

It didn’t stop Sophie from posting about it on her Instagram along with Michael Bublé’s “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”… (that might be a real stretch… but when you’ve gone as long as we have without seeing a good snowfall, you take what you can get).

It was also Day 3 of a Cheesy Christmas… Part Deux.

Welcome to Day 2 of this year’s Cheesy Christmas… Part Deux!

Today’s cheese was a discovery for us as I don’t think we’d ever tasted it before.

I’ll tell you about it, but let me also relay a few cheese-tasting tips from the booklet that accompanied our cheeses…

Remember last year when we did that Cheese-based advent calendar?

A different cheese for each of the 24 days before Christmas?

(It was a Christmas gift for Liz because she is a die-hard cheese fiend!)

Well… we’re doing it again this year, so I thought I’d try killing two birds with one stone:

a) try getting my blogging mojo back a bit &
b) bring you along on the cheesy ride.

Today was cheese #1…