It's been a busy December, as usual. We started off running on the first with Camille's choir performance at the Creche Exhibit. Her choir sang some fun songs with hand motions and a bit of dancing. Later in the day she was baptized. The highlight of the day, of course, was being baptized in cold water. Yes, COLD water! The font was not filled as it usually is beforehand so someone suggested using cold water to expedite the whole process instead of waiting until the following day (which we were leaning to). But that would have to be without the presence of our family members who had come to town for the occasion. Well, being the little trooper, Camille opted for a cold water baptism reminiscent of those pioneers who were baptized in lakes and rivers so long ago. "It wasn't so bad," she said. Terry's opinion was not the same. "It was freezing!" was more like it.
The following week Camille's choir performed in their annual Christmas Concert. It was a lot of fun! Four groups performed including the marimba band made up of 4th and 5th grade girls.
We are enjoying the season doing various "Christmasy" things. We were given a book with stories, songs, and a scripture to read each day from the 1st to the 24th of December. This is our third year with the book so we are not as diligent doing it each night but we like to re-read the stories. I also picked up a Christmas Mad-Libs book to do with the kids. They love that. It's fun making silly songs out of familiar holiday songs.
I can't forget to mention the Christmas baking. We've made some different cookies and cookie bars. I'm making some delicious Orange Rolls today. The process of rolling it out and spreading with orangy sweet filling and folding the dough repeatedly, makes a fun roll. It's a fan-tan shape with yummy orange glaze baked in. I sometimes put a custard type topping on them. Oh, my! Soooooo good!
Next item on the agenda is to put up a tree! I would like to cut our own but we will see... It's such a muddy undertaking!
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