The break and the Christmas celebrations have been great.

Christmas Eve’s party for Jesus was just a nice time with friends and family – the excitement on the children’s faces is always excellent and it must be the one night of the year that we have no problem getting the children to go to bed!

Christmas morning showed how blessed we are as ever – I was particularly impressed by Sarah’s gift of a year’s membership to the Tate galleries. If you can’t contact me now then you can guess where I will be!

Sarah preached on Christmas morning and spoke about Jesus being remembered. We took up her suggestion of after the present opening of replacing something under the tree symbolically with something from us in to Jesus, so that he stayed part of the festivities. We replaced a present and each time we see it, we can’t help but remember what Christmas is all about. I’ve found it a simple but easy way to remember Christ.

The day itself was very exciting – Chris (Sarah’s brother)and Juliet announced their engagement which is news we have been longing for as a family! The proposal occurred at the foot of the Matterhorn, but they kept it quiet until Christmas day. Now we all eagerly await the wedding date.

And the end of the holiday … well it was a white one!
Last night we went sledging and snowball throwing – look at that snow … excellent!