Sharing Christmas Cheer!

Yay, here are some photos of me doing good deeds at an oldfolks home. :) This year I did most of the organizing of the shows. Hurrah for me!!
Going to these oldfolks homes has always been a real pleasure for me. The people there are soo sweet and every year when I go there with the kids the oldfolks always say such sweet things about the kids and they always have such touching comments. I had several elderly people come up to me to share how much we make them happy and that even though they're sick or they sometimes feel that it's not worth living anymore, when they think of us and the kids they decide to stick it out and "last till Christmas" so they can see our faces and watch our show. Isn't that sweet??

Here's part of our group standing in line ready to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!! and start our show.

This is the little kids group singing "We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year". They did a simple, cute performance as well.

Here's my group of three that performed to a song with much vigor, action, and excitement! So much fun! They did well concidering the amount of time we had to practice.


Theo (of Aki & Mari) and I with a elderly woman who won this little pink balloon.

Ryo (of Sam & Leika), and I with another "winning lady". She could have been a hottie in her day. Who knows! Ha!

And...Ryo and I again passing out Christmas posters, shaking hands, and wishing them a Merry Christmas.
Here's a funny story of what happened on this day. As Ryo and I passed out the Christmas posters, we got to this one old man and Ryo looked down and started snickering.
Jan: "Ryo, give him a poster and shake his hand."
Ryo: "Hee hee hee...but he looks like a monkey!"
Looking at the man I did agree that he looked a little different than the rest. Ryo shook the man's hand with a huge grin and said, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!!" with much more passion and excitement than he had before. The old man smiled real large and complimented Ryo on his smile, how cute he was, and what a good little boy he was. Ha!! Thank God he didn't know what was going on in the little boy's mind.
Later when retelling the story to someone else, we had to agree that there were definitely some great benefits to having our kids speak English as their first language! haha!!

Anyway,

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! I wish Christmas Joy and Cheer on all of you!