Aaron and I were focused on “chest flies” and pushups a few minutes after six, when Olivia came running down the hall saying, “Somebody is knocking downstairs!” Because our house is built on concrete pillars, if people don’t walk up the steps to our porch, we often don’t hear their quiet knock. One of the ladies wanted yeast for Christmas baking, and we were happy to share.
That got our Christmas started off with a bang! Since our outdoor kitchen still hasn’t been rebuilt, we borrowed Volella’s kitchen just down the hill for making cassava pudding/lelenga as our contribution to the Christmas feast tomorrow. We thought we would have to move all of our stones, but she wasn’t making lelenga, so she allowed us to use her stones and firewood. What a sweet and thoughtful gift. We are still super slow, so we planned to alternate preparing the lelenga with decorating the church.
Olivia and Katherine walked over to the church once the other kids their age began to gather. Aaron continued to scrape and squeeze twelve coconuts, and I kept peeling the cassava. When the decorating action lagged, the girls came home and scraped more cassava. Back and forth. Back and forth. We got the lelenga on the hot stones late in the afternoon, just about the time the girls finished up in the church.
We all quickly showered and washed off the smoke and grime of the day, grabbed and consumed the leftovers from our little fridge, and walked the short distance over to evening prayer with a day full of good preparation for Christmas behind us.
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