Advent Season
This is our 6th Christmas in our little desert town and, though we miss family (every year, I just listen to this song and get some tears out), we have found joys all around us here. One nice thing about living in a place where Christmas is not a generally celebrated holiday as that you can make it what you want as a family: keeping our homemade Advent calendar, learning about Dutch Sinterklaas, making family traditions and baking and songs a part of our own family, making snow for local little ones to play with…
Last week, in a large store in the capitol, Caleb saw a large cut-out of Santa Claus. “Who’s that guy?” he asked. It was a “Wow, he is having a really different childhood from ours” moment indeed. We spent the day learning all about Santa…