Christmas Around the World Day 3

LEBANON

• In Lebanon, the children plant seeds (such as chickpeas, lentils or wheat grass) a couple weeks before Christmas so they have shoots around 6 inches long to use around their manger in their nativity scene. We used lentils to start our seeds.
• And they use figures made of brown paper bags… we can do that! I used my one brown grocery bag to start our figures for our manger scene. I won’t give pictures yet… I’ll wait till we are finished – we have a manger from last year’s Christmas Eve service that is stored in our crawl space… that makes it our now, right? I think we’ll set it up on our front porch, and add the figures a couple at a time… should be interesting!!
• On Christmas morning, they invite friends over and serve special drinks (coffee) with liqueurs and sugared almonds. Its just not a good day for this part of it… but tomorrow we are babysitting some friend’s children, so we’ll incorporate this then… probably not liquers We’ll stick with special hot chocolate. Do you think I’ll actually manage to get pics? We’ll see!

And just for fun, cause we can…

• Today we read “Legend of the Candy Cane” while we drank hot chocolate and stirred it with candy canes My children LOVE me right now!!

• We checked out this art by Gustave Dore – here is a link for the whole Bible and complete illustrations.