( photo of the 7 yr old and his friend Isaiah standing on the church pew as wise men every time wise men were mentioned in the Christmas story. All the kids came dressed as nativity characters and took part. A great idea!!) 24th So nice to sleep in as long as we wanted this morning! Nothing planned before a 3:30 pm Christmas Eve service and then dinner with our friends the Royals. Bliss! After breakfast we played pool several times and Kara did a bit if ba...

In this AirBNB home we are staying at, our host is just amazing. We noticed this evening that she has been laundering our towels every day, and also making the beds up better than we did initially. She has dropped us into the metro and picked us up. And we also noticed that she is continuing to stock up the drinks fridge which she said was left mainly by previous guests. I am guessing she only says that so people feel free to help themselves to her food. We ...

20th Overnight at our super 8 motel, the 7 yr old, who has a high pain threshold, woke upnwithba very sore ear. I was concerned we would need to stumble out into the unknown looking for an emergency room as the motel's wifi was hopeless! Thankfully he fell asleep when the panadol kicked in. The next morning it was clear we were going nowhere without medical treatment. There was the whole medical insurance thing which had the skeptical emergency centre, who ...