Christmas Eve

You guys, Jesus came to earth! That's reason to celebrate!!

We invited Didi and her kids over for a Christmas party, but unfortunately she couldn't close up her shop. We were all really looking forward to celebrating together, so instead of canceling we brought the party to her!

It was a hit! The kids were ecstatic about each new cookie as they carefully decorated it, showed it off to everyone, and then quickly gobbled it up so that they could make another one (thank you, Noah and Lucas, for the sprinkles!).

It was actually better that we gathered in the tea shop because all of our friends ended up coming; the butcher from next door came in for a piece of Meaghan's special Christmas cake, the uncles from the street joined in on the festivities, and the little girls started feeding the leftover frosting to the littler kids with a spoon. Yes, frosting with a spoon, but I promise we didn't teach them that. 

 After everyone got hyped up on sugar, we settled down and watched a movie that explained what Christmas is about. Most of our friends know that Christmas is the day that we celebrate Jesus' birth, but they didn't know the background story. We have spent time with our friends during most of the Hindu holidays learning about their culture, so it was fun to finally share some of our traditions with them, and get to explain why we celebrate this important day.

The tea shop is small, and we didn't have a single Christmas decoration or white elephant gift, but that small room was overflowing with more Christmas love than I ever could have imagined.