So it's such a busy time for everyone, I figure no one is reading blogs now anyway until maybe that Friday before Christmas vacation and you're killing time ??
Well I didn't have time to throw up any photos and such... but here's the download.
Weds - co-workers got back from Wewak.. YAY wewak internet is online now!
Buka internet still needs prayer, not coming up, but on the morning we prayed as a centre for it, it got an actual TX lock which was very encouraging. Still not enough though.
Thursday - threw a 'goodbye' bbq for a friend and co-worker leaving for Canada, not planning to return.
Thursday evening - hosted bible study
Friday evening - having the single ladies over for our annual Christmas Classic movie showing double feature of "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street". We find that around this time of year, many single people miss family more than at other times, so we try to offer a nice evening of placebo family. We serve up soup and I start a fire, and the kids get to spend time with some of their 'aunties'.
You wouldn't believe how many people have never seen It's A Wonderful Life.
I typically bore them with movie trivia about the film, and how it was produced. Soup, popcorn, cookies.
Saturday - youth group event, doing 'minute to win-it' Christmas Style for the kids. They should enjoy it.
Saturday - there is a big christmas hoo hah going on here, that we may attend if we haven't collapsed from an already busy pre-weekend.
Kids had a musical concert last week, this week it's final exams.
What else.... Oh Sydney won a contest at school for more 'festive' dress.
She wore a hat I fashioned with a close hanger to point straight up I also rigged it up to a thread so you could make it 'dance'.
and finally we did our annual "tree hunt" in which we hide our fake christmas tree and then go hunting for it. The kids enjoy that tradition.
WE find we have to create new traditions, but being creative is definitely something our family doesn't lack.
This year we have a real-tree we got from planting a christmas tree 3 years ago, it was finally tall enough to harvest (fake tree is in the pic).
And what else... oh yes... Merry Christmas!
see if I can list our family traditions:
-tree hunting w/cocoa and christmas mp3's
-hide pickles (hide a pickle or an ornament and whoever finds it before Christmas gets to open the first gift).
-Christmas decoration and music
-caroling - often carolers visit us (the high school choir) this year they brought cookies
-daily craft - there is a christmas calendar and for 25 days we all do something together, last night it was 'dance to christmas music'
-advent story - each day we read part of the advent story... and each Sunday we light candles
-reading of the christmas story
oh this year I will be performing with 2 friends at a little christmas gathering... I chose "this is our God" as a Christmas song, and while it's not really a Christmas song, it says "this is the one we've been waiting for" which is really the message of Christmas.
..okay sorry for the speed blogging... had to get that out and now I have to run!
