So… After much “fun and games” changing webhosts between America and South Africa (that is, from America to South Africa), we have a fully functional website, run by South Africans (yay!) and the transition was just about problem free.

Just about - we did unfortunately lose the blog I posted about our christmas tree, so this is me making an attempt at replacing it!
Here goes:

I think Avo must have the coolest Christmas tree around this year. It was made for us by Ivan, from the Mother of Peace Community and Orphanage in Northriding, who is 18 years old.

Ivan made our tree out of wire and beads and we each got a beaded letter for the first letter of our names, which we put on the tree together.

Avo is doing such a special thing again this year.

This Saturday we’ll be taking all the children from Mother of Peace to the Pied Piper (which is just heaven for kids!) where they’ll each get two presents. One is something that they need (clothes, school bags etc.) and the other one is something that they want.

These kids don’t get stuff that they want very often, so Jeanette and Lele took them all shopping where they were each allowed to choose a gift for themselves. These will be wrapped and given to them to open on Saturday.

We’re all really looking forward to spending the day with these special children (and all the Avo offspring too!) and seeing the smiles on their faces.

Something tells me our smiles will be bigger than theirs… .