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That Husband of Mine...

...is at it again!!! He whisked me off yesterday for a romantic overnight stay at an American hotel in Warsaw for my birthday. We had been there about three years ago and had enjoyed it so much that he even requested the same room. It was a wonderful, welcome break from the everyday life of being mom, wife, teacher.

Here is my one and only picture to prove it. This is our complimentary room service breakfast that they brought us this morning...

The Works!!!

While I'm sharing pictures, I want to share some pictures from the team's Christmas program that we put on Saturday night. We invited all our English students, plus our friends totally about 70 people. Pretty amazing. The children preformed a very meaningful Christmas play "From the Scribe's view" interspersed with singing. The team helped with some songs and we had time for the audience to help sing Christmas carols (Polish and English) as well. Truely, it was a lovely evening from the candle-lined window sills to the haybale-poinsetta-lantern backdrop to the three sweet angelic angels come to minister to the shepherds to the Christmas tea and the 140 cinnamon twists that disappeared after the program. I thought the message of the evening really was powerful if the people could understand all the words that were said and sung.

The Scribe and the Innkeeper

Joseph's Monologue

The shepherds in their field

The three Angels come to sing and proclaim hope

All the Children singing

Comments

thevbunch said…
What a lovely birthday and Christmas program.I enjoyed your site. so many interesting stories. God bless you and your family!-Valerie
7:51 AM
Anonymous said…
hey happy birthday a couple days late. sounds like you had a great night..i'm so glad!! and i liked the pictures. :) love you! gina
11:49 PM
Momof3 said…
Happy Belated Birthday, Laura! Hope you and your family and team there have a blessed holiday!
~Lez
4:51 PM
Mrs. Darling said…
Just dropping by to wish you a Merry Christmas. May your day be filled with joy!

What a nice husband!
11:19 PM
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