Weekly Wrap-Up: Wrapping Up

It has been a few weeks since a weekly wrap up post. A busy few weeks with my daughter's hospitalization , recovery and a week long visit from my dear farm sister and her family with lots of fun socialization and enjoyment of being together.

There have been last lessons in art, basketball and technology classes. 

Last youth group for the year too.

Keren wrapped up her assignments and projects for the year so we could send in her portfolio of work. She is so blessed that she didn't need to write final exams for the year due to her illness and will be passed on the work she has done for the year. Thankfully her year marks have been good so there is no concern regarding her passing the year. She got her year end results from her art school and they are outstanding. I can hardly believe I will have a second home school graduate this time next year! Where did the years go!

Keren went back to the faraway farm with my sister and her family for a glorious and much deserved month long holiday. I am a little green....

Zak and I have wrapped up his course for the year and he has done well. We have spent last few days sleeping when we please, eating when we please and just relaxing after a particularly tough couple of months.

We enjoyed the annual lighting of the St Luke's Christmas Tree and carol service last Sunday. A tradition that we have kept for many years. It was wonderful to picnic and relax surrounded by family and friends and enjoy the spectacular sight of this tree of light and hope. The Caledonian pipe band played and the Welsh choir sang for us. A magical evening which just gets one into festive mode!

At home day

Today was declared an "at home day" for the family. We have been so busy rushing around and have also done a fair bit of entertaining. It was time for a relaxed day with no pressure to go anywhere or do anything. What a great day!

After a delicious breakfast of egg and bacon sausages and family bible reading, the younger two and I got to baking the gingerbread biscuits we have wanted to bake for a while. K kept telling me to get the flour out of the cupboard....

Z was hiding in there and I got the fright of my life! Of course the children were highly amused!

We put on some Christmas carols and got to making the gingerbread dough.

Besides the cookie cutters that we borrowed from Tess, Z decided to male his own Christmas trees. After we made the first batch we decided that there weren't nearly enough so I quickly made more dough for the kids.

My artist daughter decided to spruce things up a bit and made all sorts of coloured icing and even painted her icing onto the biscuits.

The finished items were just lovely! There was an "I love you " gingerbread man made by K for her big brother, an alien, a dutch flag and some that had way too many silver balls.....

Later it was time to pull out the Christmas decorations and the tree.

I love our Nativity scene that was given to me by my mum. We also have some decorations that Z must have made the year he attended grade R. They are precious . The ones the children love most are the ones given to them by their Oma and Opa the year we were in Dar es Salaam for Christmas.

Tonight hubby was out and all the kids and I settled down to a fun Christmas movie, "Fred Claus", and munched on the very "more-ish " gingerbread biscuits. A wonderful day with the family.

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