So,what have we been doing to prepare for Christmas?
We do have our tree that has traveled the globe with us. I love decorating it as our ornaments are filled with reminders of friends who gifted them to us or happy memories of Christmas' past.
For many reasons, our other decorations are mostly home made. This year the children and I have had fun making paper chains, snowflakes and giant paper bag stars.
With no advent candles or readings at church here we usually follow some advent readings of our own, This year we have enjoyed using 'Jesse Tree' advent readings, with a symbol to add each day as a reminder of that days story.
The schools that the children attend have been busy collecting donations & gifts for less advantaged children in the community. They put on some great Christmas programmes too which have been a highlight for me as a mum! Amy & Josh performed 'Twas the night before Christmas' poem. Being an International school several songs were sung in multiple languages.
Abigail attends preschool at a Christian school and they put on a fabulous nativity....it was Abigails first school performance and she did really well. Her class sang " Happy Birthday Jesus" and reminded us what Christmas is all about.
This week we are busy with Christmas baking. Gingerbread yesterday and mince pies today!
We shall have a traditional English roast and open family gifts on Christmas eve this year.
Christmas Day will be spent at our little church making Christmas special for the 60+ children in the community. After service we will have cake, koolaid and games. We will share in lunch (Jolof Rice, fried chicken and coleslaw) and then we will watch a Nativity Movie.
Whatever, your Christmas holds we pray you will have time to pause and reflect on the reason we celebrate, May you marvel anew at the details of the events as you celebrate Jesus, God's greatest gift.
“I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people. Today, in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:10
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because through them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Liberia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Liberia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez