Merry Christmas Eve!
First present, Pajamas and our Advent calendar.
Christmas Eve in Maui. This is our fourth Christmas in Maui. It is always a little different celebrating a winter holiday on a tropical island and that is why we try to usually go to the beach to celebrate where we are. Christmas Eve felt a little rushed, I have the blessing and curse of wanting to do everything special and mark everything and some of those things have to wait until Christmas Eve. We went to the beach in the morning, watched "Miracle on 34th Street" in the afternoon, had yummy soup for dinner, went to church, held our first annual Christmas pageant, and had advent time and Andrew and I only stayed up until 2:00 am!
One of things we continue to do as a family is celebrate Advent. It is a really special time each evening to read from our advent book. As I mentioned we did a advent play. We drew our roles and then took a minute to put on costumes from around the house (my beach sarongs) and with no dress rehearsal, we were in Bethlehem. As we discussed our roles, Deveraux said, "dada, you should be Glory to God". So our play will always have the part, Glory to God.
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