Gingerbread House

We thought you would like to see our Ginger Bread House from this Christmas!

Wigilia

The Polish Christmas Eve dinner consists of 12 meatless (not including fish) courses. Our landlord and his wife brought us this sampling of their evening meal. It included an "oplatek" (pronounced: Opwatek) which is a wafer of very thin bread like material, similar to Lord's Supper wafers but thinner. Polish family members take turns breaking off pieces of each other's oplatek and giving each other wishes for the next year. You will notice, the wafer they brought us has been broken a symbol that they have given us good wishes for Christmas and the next year.

Feliz Navidad

No, it's not Polish. The girls are studying Christmas Around the World this week and so they made Farolitos on the day that they studied Christmas in Mexico. It was a nice reminder of New Mexico for Sean, he grew up there! Wesołych Świąt... now that's Merry Christmas in Polish!

The First Christmas Box

Here are the girls opening a box from Greenlakes Baptist Church in VA. It was a real blessing and the girls has a blast! Thank you!

All I want for Christmas...

Becca lost a top fron tooth this week and the other is loose! She may loose it by Christmas, but I she will be toothless for awhile!

Raising the Tree in Old Town

I just happened to be in Old Town today and witnessed this exciting event! Christmas is almost here in Poland. Soon this old tree will be covered in all kinds of decorations made by the children of Olsztyn. We'll post more pictures later! Enjoy.