Bournagain

Over a week without a post! One of the things I love about Christmas is spending a few days just being together as a family without the usual time pressures. We did our family celebration on the 24th, and had a really fun day just doing nothing much other than playing with the new toys, eating, talking with family on the phone, and ending the day in front of the Narnia DVD. As we sat down to dinner Laura said that it was the kind of day that she wishes would never end. I guess it’s a little taste of heaven really. The idyll is still punctuated by the odd family squabble, the Christmas dessert that doesn’t look anything like the picture in the recipe book and that the kids don’t like anyway, the bits missing from the new lego set… life goes on. But it’s great having those little flashes of perfection to keep us moving “further up and further in”.

On the 25th we braved the icy fog and drove an hour south to our English friends the Johnsons where we enjoyed several hours around their overflowing table with some interesting new people, including the pastor of the Reformed church in La Roche sur Yon.