and all through the ministry site
Not an ipod was stirring, not even a podcast
Since our showers were cold we didn’t wash our hair,
But there were hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
St. Nick didn’t come. I know it seems like a gloomy Christmas without St. Nick, but there were gifts. HOMEMADE GIFTS.
We all dressed up in our silliest Christmas clothes!
Of course you have to actually celebrate before you can open gifts, so we started our night with dinner at home (aka Casa Shalom).
After dinner we found out Daniel had organized a scavenger hunt from our bus stop to the city.
At one of our many scavenger stops!
When we arrived at our destination Daniel was waiting for us with a rose and a letter for the girls! So sweet. 
After a few hours talking about Christmas and having fun we headed back to Casa Shalom. When we got back we baked apple pastries together as a family and opened our homemade presents!
I was Sami’s Secret Santa so I made her a coloring book to bring to Africa.
Jake was my Secret Santa and he made me an origami songbird! 🙂
Overall, I couldn’t have asked for a better Christmas. However, I do think we will celebrate it again in 2 months.
Then we all lived happily ever after in our fluffy beds with clean sheets, freshly clean clothes, and fairies dancing in our heads.
*It was actually more like dirt ridden beds, clothes that mildewed while waiting to get hung out to dry, and dreams about American conspiracy theories. But oh well, let the good times roll. Here we come Africa.
