Will Dig Life

Christmas is a big deal. Especially for kids, who will take what they understand as "normal" or "traditional" from their childhood memories! As a couple, Mr and I are from different cultural backgrounds so our family traditions around Christmas are different - hence, from the time my big girl was born, it was clear that we were going to make our own family traditions: traditions with intentions. Our most important intention was and is to instill in the kids an understanding of why we celebrate this holiday (it's Jesus' birthday!), but we also want to give the children that magical joy and pass on (only) those of our cultural traditions which support the main aim. So, here are a few of our family ways at Christmas, and, importantly, advent - that month of preparation for the big day! Advent: the month of December Advent as defined by the church is the month starting four Sundays before the 25th of December. So it can start in November. At the start of a

We're home now - firstly, more Kenya photos! Here is the presentation we showed at church on Sunday, lots of photos from our Kenya adventure... Much as we loved our time in Kenya - and we did: looking back now I would say it was a time of extreme high times and some pretty low times, certainly never boring! - it is lovely to be back home. Our cases are unpacked, Fred the dog is back home, and tomorrow we start our regular weekly activities again. And today we were back at church again for the first time. Sadly I didn't take pictures of us all in our splendid African attire! While we were away, autumn really arrived - the trees are losing colourful leaves and the air is decidedly crisp. After church, because we hadn't seen Jim for way too long [...] we went over to his house for the afternoon. Lots of food and fun was had!