The Christmas
Season brings mixed emotions: Missing loved ones... Missing what were “usual”
traditions... (Being more thankful than ever for early Christmas celebrations enjoyed this year...) Enjoying the joys of the moment... Always
working to remember the One we celebrate, thankful that HE came to “save His
people from their sins” (Mt. 1).
On Christmas Eve,
we celebrated in the afternoon and evening with Daniel and Viviana and their girls.
The cousins
enjoyed building the Christmas Tree Cookie once again!
We may just be able to keep this tradition from year to year... J
There didn’t seem
to be as many flowers (or as many varieties) in bloom in the back yard this year...
But thankfully (and to
our surprise), the double-bloom poinsettias are actually recovering!
In contrast to the pace of life the previous two weeks, Christmas Day was a quiet affair.
In JM’s words:
In Montevideo the second-most-chaotic night of the year with its music and fireworks yields to the second-quietest day of the year, a change augmented this year by the arrival of a cool rain early this morning.
We managed to
record one verse of a carol that became DJ’s favorite in Music Class at BJA.
But we got only so far as the first verse in Spanish. And the almost two-minute video clip includes glimpses of “real life” while recording… J
A Christmas carol
from Elizabeth is still pending...
On Christmas Evening we
were all able to connect via Skype – with both sides of the extended family.
(Technology can be such a blessing!)
So thankful that Daniel
captured this screen shot!
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