Today's photo challenge was to capture my favorite part of Christmas Eve. That is hard. The first thing is not something that I could take a picture of. After the service held at church this evening, DL said "Merry Christmas" to me. This may seem like a small thing but when I explain, you will know why it is top of my list. DL has Huntington's disease. For her to say something that clearly is unusual and for her to choose to use those words with me is a blessing I am not sure how to articulate. How could I capture that moment with a picture?
Next on my list of favorite parts of Christmas Eve was sharing a meal with N&CP. N is from Costa Rica. One of their traditions is to share a meal with family on Christmas Eve at midnight. So, the P family invited us to share in that tradition this year. Several families from the homeschool co-op were there. Because so many in the group have small children, they chose to serve the meal at 10:00 pm instead of midnight. We arrived at 8:00 to play games and hang out. I now know how to play chicken foot dominoes! Then we had tamales and rice for dinner. It was delicious! Pictured below is N&CP with A(on N's lap), S(on C's lap) and J(standing); little I was already in bed when we arrived. The picture was taken near the end of the evening, well past the typical bedtime for these amazing youngsters. I snapped 30 pictures and yet didn't get one where S was sitting still. This was the best shot.
As mentioned earlier, we had a service at church this evening as well. It is the first Christmas Eve service that has been held at this church for as long as I have been attending. It was definitely one of my favorite parts of the day this year. Pictured is our youth pastor preparing to lead us in worship.
