November 29, 2010

• It was first advent yesterday. I had no idea. No cues outside or at church… <sigh> I suppose it’s past time to get out the advent wreath.

   
  This is at the Raphia. Those are the boys and the orchids sitting up in the frangipani tree. One more thing to add to the ‘i love the Christmas season (aka summer!) in Madagascar” is the scent of frangipanis in the air everywhere you go.
   

  Below is what i thought would be one of the better photos… but i had the camera on video mode. I have a lot of these “photos” which i think are rather Harry Potter-esque. Moving pictures, you know.
  

   
   

  Friday is Judah’s birthday. I’ve re-hung the birthday banner and was reminded of a simple card idea from a cousin’s blog, and the picture in the book we’ve been quoting every time we see the banner on the deck flip-flapping has such fun flags in it… so i thought i’d whip some up for the party too. I not-so-subtly pointed out to Josh yesterday that i have made so many decorations and whatnot from things we already have or things i could get for free, like the bamboo poles that the gardener cut down for me from the back road. Dont you reckon that’s a reason to be able to spend some money at the Christmas Bazaar? Haha.

  
  I’ve been waiting for this for a long time! ha. Cant wait until we all can sit quietly together and read our own books as an evening’s activity.

  

  I dont know if the previous photo of the agapanthas with Judah in the foreground really conveyed the size of these flowers. Their flower heads are as big as my own and they’re taller than i am!

  

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