For those of you who do not have an insanely busy Christmas and are able to catch up on some blogs.....MERRY CHRISTMAS.
We have come to terms with having Christmas in shorts and are looking forward to celebrating Christmas with some traditions from home and also some newly adopted traditions.
Our children will open stockings tonight (Christmas Eve). This is American. The tradition here is to open a huge "santa sack" first thing on Christmas morning - alot of times prezzies are opened on Christmas Eve. Instead of attending a Christmas Eve service, we will attend a Christmas morning service. We will have our traditional fancy breakfast and a big dinner in the evening. An Australian tradition that we are looking forward to is having plum pudding. We have been invited to a friends house to "fancy our tastebuds".
The kids will be surprised with their final gifts. They get some squirt guns. They get to go outside with dad and grandpa and "cool off" This is an Australian tradition. Supposibly it is against the drought rules, but it is not strictly enforced on Christmas :-)
We will leave on Friday morning and will head to the beach for a couple of days. This is what most Australians do for the holiday.
May God bless you all this holiday season with good times with friends and family and a closer relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Merry Christmas!! Miss you guys. According to my calculations it is just after midnight Australia and officially Christmas. I hope you have a terrific day enjoying family and Australia.
We are having a couple families over for dinner and then going to Christmas Eve service. We will be having Chili for dinner. Tomorrow we will be at home and Marvel will join us.
May Christ be real to you this Christmas.
Lewandowski family
I am so glad that Angie gave me your blog address. It seems that I lost the little paper that I had in my Bible originally with the address on it. It is so good to be updated on how your family is enjoying the holidays.
late Merry Christmas to you.
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