Sunday, December 07, 2008

Getting Ready

December is a month of preparations. We have been experiencing this in a number of ways.

On our MCC team . . .
We enjoyed baking Christmas foods and then inviting some friends over for an advent service.
In our neighborhood . . .

Everyone has been working together to paint the streets, put up banners and balloons, and clean up to prepare for La Purisima (today and tomorrow). Earlier this week, we had an early morning visit from the traveling Virgin and her parade. For more on La Purisima, see December 2007 of this blog.

In our house . . . We have been decorating for Christmas and enjoying the mixture of old and new cultural traditions. We also just bought a lovely used crib from one of our neighbors! It became quite the neighborhood affair installing it in our house (the process included cutting out part of one of our doorframes). So now we are ready for this little one coming in 2 months.

2 comments:

Seth and Sarah said...

I like the crib

Colleen said...

wow!! That is a nice crib, I think you got quite the bargain! Now all you need is a baby :)