"Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire"

Hi Everyone,

Such a wonderful time of year!! How excited Crist and I are to go to under the bed and pull out the big box filled with Christmas decorations. I hope we can do this without breaking anything. We'll put some Christmas music on and "away we go!!"

First, we're gonna decorate with Christmas lights on our little porch overhang and then into our two-room apartment we'll hang more Christmas lights from the windows and around the bookcase. I'm so excited - now to have some hot chocolate and chocolate chip cookies - yum!!!

Okay, that's done - so now it's time to put up the modest Christmas tree. There's not much room in here, but we can do it!! It's not the perfect Christmas tree, but it'll do. I think we'll decorate the front door next. We always do that at home in the states and it's nice to have alot of color on the door. Okay - we're standing back to see all that we did - it's BEAUTIFUL!!

Okay - so we lied!

We didn't bring any decorations with us from the states because of weight limitations and here in Nigeria anything Christmas IS VERY VERY EXPENSIVE! We didn't want to spend any money on things that we couldn't bring back with us (we're very practical - grin) so the picture up above is "Our Christmas Decoration". All of it!! But you know it's okay. Christ's birth wasn't fancy - probably even smelly. But He did have music - the heavenly angels singing!! So, this year we'll put on some music, read the Christmas Story once again and be very very thankful for all of our family and friends that we love and care about.

In-joy,

Eileen and Crist

P.S. Guess where we got the bow that is taped to our front door? It was from a jar of cookie mix that we bought at a craft fair at Hillcrest School. See, I told you we were practical! grin