Merry ‘blazing hot’ Christmas
We are all excited about Christmas. We have our little tree decorated. We were even able to get lights for it this year and Jenny made some more ornaments for it at one of the Women’s teas that a lady in our missionary fellowship has from time to time. It is blazing hot with barely any rain in sight to bring relief so it looks like we will have 90 degree and above temperatures for our festivities. Without an air conditioner in our house the last few days we have spent just sitting around trying to conserve our energy to do the things that need to be done. Nadia is excited about her presents. She has two. She even gave daddy a gift. We will see if mommy gets one to but we all know that daddy is her favorite (ha,ha). Cheryl gave us her toaster oven and slow cooker while they are gone so Jenny made bagels and we bought cream cheese for breakfast. We are going to cook pork and pineapple with mashed potatoes and a passion fruit dessert. We plan to go to the Anglican Church who is having a service in the morning. Then I suppose we will sleep off the heat in the afternoon and maybe watch a movie in the evening.
This week has been crazy in both Chimoio and Beira. Both of the shopping districts are full of people buying stuff for the holidays. Maybe it is because we are in a different city this year but both the supermarkets in Beira and Chimoio were packed with people. It was hard to get in and out. I walked down the streets of Chimoio to go to the market today and they were chalk full of people. Maybe it is a sign that people are getting more disposable income. I think we are definitely noticing a difference. Unfortunately we saw way too much alcohol being purchased and the noise and drunks on the street remind us that not everyone is celebrating the birth of Jesus.
We watched the Nativity story the other night to get us into the mood for Christmas and the celebration of Jesus’s birth. Maybe we will watch it again on Christmas to stir up those feelings again which are so easily aroused when family, friends and a familiar community of faith surrounded us while living in the US. We were able to celebrate Christmas with our international missionary fellowship. But at least it is a community of faith and familiar faces that we can call our family here in this place. They help us to remember what the celebrating of this season is really about.
We are all excited about Christmas. We have our little tree decorated. We were even able to get lights for it this year and Jenny made some more ornaments for it at one of the Women’s teas that a lady in our missionary fellowship has from time to time. It is blazing hot with barely any rain in sight to bring relief so it looks like we will have 90 degree and above temperatures for our festivities. Without an air conditioner in our house the last few days we have spent just sitting around trying to conserve our energy to do the things that need to be done. Nadia is excited about her presents. She has two. She even gave daddy a gift. We will see if mommy gets one to but we all know that daddy is her favorite (ha,ha). Cheryl gave us her toaster oven and slow cooker while they are gone so Jenny made bagels and we bought cream cheese for breakfast. We are going to cook pork and pineapple with mashed potatoes and a passion fruit dessert. We plan to go to the Anglican Church who is having a service in the morning. Then I suppose we will sleep off the heat in the afternoon and maybe watch a movie in the evening.
This week has been crazy in both Chimoio and Beira. Both of the shopping districts are full of people buying stuff for the holidays. Maybe it is because we are in a different city this year but both the supermarkets in Beira and Chimoio were packed with people. It was hard to get in and out. I walked down the streets of Chimoio to go to the market today and they were chalk full of people. Maybe it is a sign that people are getting more disposable income. I think we are definitely noticing a difference. Unfortunately we saw way too much alcohol being purchased and the noise and drunks on the street remind us that not everyone is celebrating the birth of Jesus.
We watched the Nativity story the other night to get us into the mood for Christmas and the celebration of Jesus’s birth. Maybe we will watch it again on Christmas to stir up those feelings again which are so easily aroused when family, friends and a familiar community of faith surrounded us while living in the US. We were able to celebrate Christmas with our international missionary fellowship. But at least it is a community of faith and familiar faces that we can call our family here in this place. They help us to remember what the celebrating of this season is really about.
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Merry Christmas, friends! I just caught up on your recent blogs. Your baby looks like lots of fun. I wish we could get our girls together to play. Our N just turned two. Last weekend we got snowed in, so there was plenty of snow left for Christmas Day. Wish I could send some of it your way for a refreshing snowball fight! Love, meck
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