Christmas time!

Well it's probably about time that I wrote another post, there is really no excuse for me not to write, since I've been enjoying Christmas holidays for at least a week and a half already! My Christmas has been so good, gatherings and yummy food...one day I decided to experiment with some Christmas baking, so I made turtles, raspberry almond shortbread, gumdrop cookies, and magic cookie bars. Then I looked at the clock and realized that three hours had passed already and that Marvin would be at my house in one hour because I was going to make him supper for our Christmas thing together! So then I had to shift into fast-mode and got everything finished at the last minute, which is something I have a tendency to do and something that I should stop doing!

Anyway, my favorite gift that I have gotten so far this year was from Marvin...when I was in Africa this past summer I worked with a pastor for about five weeks and his youngest daughter was not able to go to the Christian school that his other two daughters were going to because he and his wife did not have enough money to pay for her schooling, and so now Marvin and I are going to sponsor her! I'm so excited, ever since I heard that this pastor did not have enough money to send his youngest daughter to school I have wanted to sponsor her, I just didn't think I had enough money because all of it is going towards school, but now Marvin and I can do it together - yeah!

And my second favorite gift was a globe, I've always wanted a globe. When I was younger we had this huge map hanging on our wall and I always liked looking at it and choosing places that I would like to go to someday. So now I have a globe and when I'm distracted from studying then I can just look at my globe and dream of the places that I could go someday, and then also, I can learn where all of these countries actually are in the world, because where I think places are in my head is sometimes quite different from where they are actually located in the world - so hilarious! Merry Christmas to you all!