


We'll be doing a great deal of 'traveling about' this Christmas season, beginning in Germany when we bring our Christmas tree home to light and embellish.
Next, we'll be traveling to Morocco when my sister and her husband host their 11th annual themed (amazingly decorated, and often costumed) Christmas dinner party.
A long-time friend of ours and current missionary to Cambodia is home on furlough. We'll be meeting up with him for a rousing game night to remind us of the good ol' days.
December 6th will be our third annual European celebration of St. Nicholas Day with close friends. We make marzipan fruits, read stories about St. Nick, put chocolate gold coins in shoes, and more.

Lucia by Swedish painter Carl Larsson, 1908
On December 13th we remember our Swedish heritage with a St. Lucia Day celebration. We missed the opportunity last year due to our move, so I am doubly looking forward to St. Lucia Day this Christmas season.
Our Spanish lessons end this year with Las Posadas. On (or around) December 16th, we will have a Mexican Christmas dinner. We will read The Night of Las Posadas, sing the traditional Los Posadas song, and end the evening with a pinata.
After Los Posadas, we are back 'home for the holidays.' I would love to celebrate Epiphany on January 6th, but we are officially done with the season on December 27th when our Christmas decorations, books, and music are carefully stowed away in preparation for Levi's birthday on January 1st.
As you can imagine, I'll be inundating you with details and photographs in the near future!
3 comments:
I'd love to hear more details about what you do for St. Lucia Day. Since we have a little Lucia in our own home, I've been thinking it might be fun to do something special.
Heidi,
Thanks so much for sharing this series of posts. It is really inspiring.
Congratulations on the blog award nomination. I'll be voting come December 3rd... :)
Thanks for all of your recommendations!
I love Rick Steves...I took him along on our European trip last spring :o)
I'll ber his Christmas program is really good. I will see if I can find it!
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