Christmas two

As mentioned in the last blog, the dutch celebrate TWO days of Christmas so the 26th was just as busy as the 25th. But first, two more photos from Christmas day. Firstly the children playing games after lunch.



Richard with one of his gifts, a Spiderman watch which lasted about one day. He has a calico bag around his neck with his name on it to put his presents in. All children got those which was helpful (remember to say that helepful) to keep track of the loot.
Saturday dawned as grey and overcast as Christmas day. We had breakfast at home, here, and the boys did their usual chores for a Saturday. we had decided that we wanted to give the boys ( and especially me) a treat with a roast dinner. So most of the boys heleped out in some way in preparing it. We had roast chicken, roast potatoes, kumera and pumpkin, some cauliflower, peas and beans. Just like at home, and it was great!!!




We decided to sit around the small table together, the photo shows us ready to start with christmas crackers and sodas (of course), and party hats. The boys enjoyed it all and so did we. I hope I don't have to wait until next Christmas for another roast dinner!!
After lunch we again had some games organised, we were again unable to go outside so went to the new church building which was at least under cover.
Then after afternoon tea, we took a group of nursery school children for some music using some of the songs Marilyn used in Marty's Music at home. Boy, what an eyeopener that was. We thought the bigger children had poor listening skills, these children had NONE. However, we struggled on and got by.
After supper the boys had a disco to round off the celebrations and they stumbled into bed about 9pm. I had been asked to give the message in church on Sunday (today) at the end of the disco, so I still had some work to do and finally made it into bed about 12.30am.
We did manage to get Raghma down for about an hour on Christmas day and no blog would be complete without the obligatory photo of her. This is Santa Raghma.
Please continue to pray for her as she has had an awful chesty cough for about two weeks now and is finding it difficult to suck and breathe at the same time. Please pray that she will get over it quickly.
Well, that's all for now, we are hoping for a somewhat quieter week, we have Alex and Simon visiting tomorrow and hope to get to Kampala on Wednesday but we know that things will never be too quiet with the boys around.
Our best wishes for a happy New Year, if you are driving, be careful.
God Bless