December used to be my favorite month. What happened? But I still love Christmas day. We stay home with each other, in our pajamas and I finally take a breath. Christmas movies and walks in the snow and a fun Bethlehem themed dinner and lots of toy playing. So good for us.
They FINALLY got kendamas! Life has begun.
After a month without snow we woke up Christmas morning to a foot of it! We were outside in the falling snow when we looked behind us and saw the cutest little miniature horse looking at us from out neighbors pasture! My kids were soooo enchanted with him! They were hoping he was for us, but nope, Greg and Jody must have been a little bit nicer than us last year.
We had a Bethlehem dinner that night. Fun to talk about how Mary and Joseph must have felt that night after the baby Jesus had been born. We had flat bread with olives and hummus, cheese and fruit on the floor by the fire. An awesome way to end Christmas day
In January we invited/begged Brandon's friend from work to come teach us how to make sri lankan food. I gotta admit, when they showed up i thought there was no way they could make good stuff, they were waaay to skinny. But I was wrong. Prasat and Gaya were awesome and if i could have captured the smell in my kitchen that night I would have. It was amazing!!! And the coolest part about it - Gaya left a whole bunch of awesome spices and herbs with me that her mom brings back for her when she visits them. Oh what a fun night and so fun to get to know some really really kind people. Prasat's stories of being taken to a boarding school at the age of 5 blew my mind. Such cool people, and their little girl Maya is adorable.
And to round out this really cohesive post - Brandon showed the kids a bunch of parkour videos and for the month of January things looked like this a lot....kinda cool, kinda scary:)
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