December 24, 2006

•   Events I haven’t had time to blog about part II

  ~Nicholas’ 1st grade Christmas Party~

  The first graders have a tradition of a “formal” Christmas lunch, complete with real china, silverware, glassware and place cards. The meal is very kid friend though. It was a lot of fun and even funnier to go through the “Wendy’s” drive through window and order 60 chicken nuggets. The kid behind the counter was funny, he tells me, “It’s all good; I eat a lot of chicken too.”

  

   

    

  Fr. said the blessing and blessed the food and the children all prayed the,”Lord’s Prayer” together.

    

  Ashlee (Nicholas’s teachers dd) and Maria~Angelica. Ashlee graduates this year and we hope she will return to the school to teach someday!

   

  Santa Claus just called our house; complete with caller ID that said North Pole! He mentioned Nicholas by name, several times.  I think we MAY have some believers.  Never the less they believe in St. Nicholas and he is the REAL deal! The boys are enjoying activities from this St. Nicholas site. Jonah wanted some coloring sheets from the Santa tracking site and Nicholas said, “I don’t want ones that I don’t believe in.” So I have printed off some St. Nicholas coloring sheets. Here is Nicholas’ favorite. Do you know in Greece St. Basil brings presents on New Years Day? Fr. did not grow up with St. Claus. Christmas was not a gift giving day it was a day to wake up early to go to Church to celebrate the birth of Christ. St. Basil brought gifts on St. Basil’s day (Jan. 1). St. Basil was known for his philanthropy.

  We also saw Santa over Russia. The clip mentions Orthodox Christians. We celebrate tomorrow but the Russians follow the older calendar for Christmas which is 13 days later then the Western Calendar.

  Here is the link to see Santa over Moscow.

   

   

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