At last...!

Just so you know- we are still alive! Now I´ve promised myself for next year to be better at writing on this page. Maby you´ve all given up, but we´ll see!

Now advent is getting closer to Christmas everyday. We are of course prepearing Christmas by making coockies and gingerbread and different kind og christmasy things. Last saturday there was a consert at the Norwegian school where Margrét Helga and Jóel were singing in the childerenschoir. The school childeren had the biggest part of the program with both singing and playing instruments. After the consert I went with the school childeren to the Sweedish embasy where they sang thyer St. Lucia songs, which also had been a part of the concert. In Sweeden it is a long tradition of selebrating st. Lucia´s day and since we work together with the Swedish school that is a part of our program. As I undersand it is also getting bigger both in Norway an Denmark but in Iceland it is not very common unless for those who have been living in Sweeden.

The coming sunday the childerenschoir will also sing in the International Lutheran church and then they are doing the whole Christmas eve sevice at the Norwegian school so they have a lot of work to do, learning songs. The 22. there will be a concert at the Seminari where my choir there is going to sing. So you see we are not getting bored here.

I have not mentioned it here that we are expecting our child numer four in march! I´ve been feeling very good uptill now but I feel that I get tired more easily. But we are all looking forward to se our new familymember and we are planing on giving birth here in Ethiopia in stead of going home. We haven´t decided comleatly yet but that is the plan. We would preciate if you prayd for that with us. After the new year I´m not going to work as much as before and after the babies birth I have decided not to work for the next one and a half year at least. In the future I might have to teach Margrét Helga and Jóel icelandic so I want to have space for that, and now with three small childeren at home and one starting school I think I will have enough to do!

Well, I think this will be it for now, hope I will write soon again

God bless you the advent an the coming holiday

Ps. there are some new photos in our album - just press "myndir" or http://gallery.askur.org/fyrogflamme