Merry Christmas, everyone! We have a special Christmas card just for you.

Jayme and I returned to Ain Kawa today to shop for little Christmas gifts and last-minute decorations.  We found two new sets of lights for the tree with a much better pattern of programmed blinking, and a length of fabric to wrap around the base.  This helpfully disguises the ugly desert motif on the soil pot.

( A Christmas Not So Janky )

Jayme and I are celebrating our first Christmas together this year.  This is also our first married Christmas, and we wanted to get the tradition off to a good start ( Read more... )

In Iraq, Christmas is only a holiday for the Christians. It is a lot like Jewish holidays in the States.

So, hankinbaghdad and I worked today. The day was fairly relaxed and we had a really fun party later in the evening ( Read more... )