We have just celebrated our second Christmas in America and are enjoying all the differences and similarities that that brings culture-wise!!! Mark's sister, has been able to join us here in Coshocton again and has been having lots of fun with Abigail especially!
Gingerbread men and houses are a part of an American Christmas ... so a couple of days before Christmas ... Abigail and Amy had a fun couple of hours making and decorating their own!!
There were major structural difficulties during the process ... however we're pleased to report that after some dedicated repair work but her Auntie Amy ... Abigail was able to finish decorating her little house (which is still standing as I write this!!!) Below is the finished masterpiece!
On Christmas Day ... we were treated to a lie-in by Abigail ... who hasn't yet worked out that most little people wake up in the early hours of the morning on December 25th to open presents ... and then had a very lazy morning having fun opening presents together! As you can see there was lots of silliness going on ... and Abigail did very well with her pile of goodies!
Later on in the afternoon we were joined by the lovely Gettle family (another MMS apprentice family and good friends of ours) for a yummy Christmas dinner and some more silliness together!!! One of the things we haven't managed to get out here are Christmas crackers ... so we compensated with head-boppers instead of the usual paper hats!!
We were so stuffed that we never did get round to starting our alternative Christmas cake ... something that is becoming a bit of a family tradition for us ... instead of the usual Christmas fruit cake ... we made another giant chocolate cupcake decorated as a Christmas tree again this year (by Amy) ... we started eating it the day after instead ... delicious!!
On Boxing Day (December 26th for our US buddies!!) we went to church ... as they don't do church on Christmas Day here. Pastor Dan had asked Jenny to share a little of the differences between Christmas in the UK and in the States ... so we had to do a little research before hand to find out why we do certain things in the UK ... and also identified lots of differences between how two supposedly similar cultures celebrate the same holiday.
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