Not being Christian, we've pondered alot lately about how to talk to McKay about why and how we celebrate "Christmas". One of our carol albums (BareNakedLadies) has Happy Birthday dear Jesus on it...so we told him the traditional Christmas story about a baby being born.To try to shift the emphasis of the season towards something without so many conflicting messages we've started to also focus on the solstice. Last night we spent the evening by candlelight, eating, playing games and squinting. After dinner we joined a parade of over 1000 people along Falsecreek. There were drummers, mummers and everyone was carrying lanterns. Kids were everywhere. Met one woman who's little one was 6 days old. Several large parades all joined up at the FalseCreek community centre where we were met by a fabulous choir of MorrisMen, fire dances and general carousing. We drank hot chocolate, square danced (Mckay can Dosedo and Promenade), and watched the Morrismen put on a play.
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