Happy Harvest 2019

Doctor Isaac and Queen Elsa were ready to celebrate the Harvest this year!  So much fun getting dressed up after a regular school day and doing something fun.

Isaac has a long history of Harvest Parties so we've had time to grow into the craziness that games and music and food and people and candy can be.  (He was particularly good at the balance games this year!)

Mila, not so much. This was her first event and even with all the fun of getting dressed up and the promise of chocolate (her life giving love language!), one game was enough and she was done.  We found the preschool room and some colors and finished our evening there. BUT, if any of our friends found us, she was quick to happily announce "I'm not Mila, I'm ELSA"  (Please, people, this dress itches. Make it worth my while)

I had reached out to our missionary friends in Albania asking how I could explain Harvest to my new daughter. They are Americans and even know our church well. "Yeah...outside of the chocolate, there is no explaining this to her".   You see, instead of knocking on strangers' doors and threatening to cause harm to their bodies or property unless they give you candy, we dress up so you can't recognize anyone, go to church, play goofy games, have thousands of pieces of chocolate put in a bucket that you carry around, then watch a man on a unicycle catch oranges on spiked helmet on this head, all because the "harvest" from the farm that we don't have is fully collected, but not by us.  Got it?!  They were right. There is no explaining this.  Coloring was indeed our best option. 

Next year will be different. And the year after that will be different too. That is how we collect our harvest...one piece of fruit at a time.