The bulk of the past week was spent on prepping for two big events – Our Thanksgiving feast we had on Saturday and then the Hostel’s Christmas party on Sunday. Ben was also gone Monday-Thursday to a meeting in town so Mikayla and I held down the fort here in St. Phillips! While in town he picked up some hard to find items including a Christmas tree and grill!!
On Tuesday Mikayla, Sharon (the childcare director) and I began some preparation for the hostel Christmas party. We took out our new car for a spin and headed to Big Bend (a town about thirty minutes down the road) to pick up some supplies. While driving I noticed that the car kept pulling in one direction and turns out we had a slow leak in one of our tires and it was almost flat by the time we got home. Thankfully some of the guys on the mission helped us out.
A couple of weeks ago I volunteered to make cookies for the kids as part of their gifts. At two cookies per kid, plus some for the staff I was looking at making almost 400 cookies!! On Wednesday I baked 200+ chocolate chip cookies and then on Thursday I baked 200+ snicker doodles. Mikayla was a big helper and cooked along side of me most of the time.
Have I mentioned what an imagination Mikayla has? She can take almost anything and turn it into a fun game. This week I tied a string to an egg carton and she called it a turtle and took it everywhere with her. She made it go for walks with us and talked to it just like we talk to her.
On Saturday we had some folks over for a Thanksgiving celebration (more about that coming soon), so Friday and Saturday were spent cooking, cleaning, prepping and eating a lot!
Sunday we headed to the hostel to celebrate Christmas with the kids. They celebrate early because their school term is over next week and they will all head home to their homesteads for several weeks. The kids put on a very nice play featuring the birth of Jesus and did some traditional dancing and singing.
Shepherds with their sheep from the Christmas play
Some cows and donkeys hanging out in the manger
Angels
The Christmas cast singing Silent Night
Auntie Jane on the left bringing in some of the older girls to do some traditional dancing.
Remember this guy? Simo has grown so much!
The choir plus some of the staff singing/dancing at the end.
Found this guy just hanging out on the laundry this week, must be time for it to rain again!
Picture taken using the Light Scoop given to us from my sister-in-law, Sarah!
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