Tapanin day

Sometimes known as Boxing day, Tapanin paiva is the day after Christmas and is a day for visiting and sharing Christmas leave leftovers. The Jakko's have moved to a beautiful new home in the country woods--when the road stops you're there. The children were excited to show us their Christmas presents. Laura had received a keyboard and played the first song she had learned for us. The kids thought I knew how to speak Finnish but they seemed to be speaking a foreign language to me. We enjoyed singing some Christmas songs and dinner. The girls sang a song we learned last year at Jaana Moller's Christmas celebration in Annapolis. Just as dinner was ending Maija turned into a beautiful princess and was persuaded to perform for us to the strains of a Finnish princess song. We gave a short spiritual message about God giving Jesus good earthly parents. And the kids colored the pictures that went along with the message.