Merry Christmas

Christmas, we love Christmas.

 As we celebrate the birth of our Savior there are so many traditions and memories with our family.  This year we are grateful that we "The Miles Family" have set many traditions for Christmas with our children as we are surely missing all of our family back home. 

Singapore recognizes Christmas but the Singaporeans do not celebrate Christmas. Chinese New Year is the big holiday here so businesses will be closed on two days for the Chinese New Year celebration and that is when gifts are given and family gathers in Singapore.

 The businesses are decked out and Christmas music is playing but it is to make the foreigners welcomed to spend the money in their shops.  To be fair, the churches here do have Christmas concerts etc... as an out reach but it really does feel different.

Our family ventured out to Orchard road a few nights ago and here are some pictures we captured

The lights above the streets are beautiful and stretch for miles, about every half mile they change color from blue to red to purple to white etc...

We did find a big nativity scene that stretched for blocks and at the end was a stage with a church singing some Christmas Carols.  I must say it was strange to be standing in shorts and a tank top listening to Christmas Carols and mopping sweat off our brows.

We sure have been blessed this Christmas to have gifts from all our family to open and we are grateful for our computer phone that allows us to talk to our loved ones and Skype, skype is just great, we just had a skype call with Randi's family that are all gathered in Indiana to celebrate Grandpa's 79th birthday.  We hope to be able to skype with Scott's family later today also.

We awoke to our traditional Christmas morning, the reading of our last advent devotion, the lighting of our candle, opening of our gifts and feasting on our traditional breakfast, home made cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs and bacon, yes, bacon, even at $9.00 a pound it is Christmas so the bacon made it to the table.

We The Miles Family wish all of you a very Merry Christmas!