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12th Day of Christmas

Friday, January 11th, 2019

And then sadly we finally arrive at the 12th day of Christmas. The last day of our Nativity festival and feasting. On this day we have our traditional 12 Days of Christmas Feast.

Today Gerhardt brought out the gifts he had for each of his brothers and sisters. He had been home from school one day before the break and ran around the house gathering items he knew each of them would love. Then he wrapped them all himself with boxes he thought they would like as well. What a sweet boy. I had fun watching how much joy this brought him.
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11th Day of Christmas

Friday, January 11th, 2019

Yes, I know there is no post for the 10th day of Christmas. That day all we did was clean and prepare for the 11th day of Christmas!

On the 11th day of Christmas we cheated and celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany early. Because this feast fell on a Sunday this year and we already had plans that evening we went ahead with a feast during Christmas. Instead of a big to do open house like we tried last year we went back to our tradition of inviting a few families over to observe the celebration with us.

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