Pre Christmas events and bakes

David's Birthday hungry Caterpillar cake

November was a busy month. Rather, from October onwards, actually. It started off with entering the Write for 31 days October challenge. I am still on Day 15. I am sure I will finish it one of these days. My parents were here during the Autumn break. It was wonderful for them to join us for David's first birthday. A special milestone for us too. We remembered how things were during his birth and the months that followed.We remembered the different ways God worked in us and him, and gave thanks for the way He brought us through this difficult time, victoriously. Needless to say, challenges still do exist, but the tube weaning was a big gift He gave us. True to David and his eating, as well as he can, I made an hungry caterpillar cake.

Other baby shower gifts made by friends

Divya's Babyshower cake

Riek's "entering the Anglican church" cake

A few other cakes that I made for a friends baby shower and for another friends. I was glad that I could make more cakes this year than the past two years. 

We went to the Lego world exhibition in Utrecht during the Autumn break with my parents. It was heaven for the boys. And certain constructions were exciting for my Dad too.  

My brother was with us for the weekend in between work in Germany. It was nice to have the family together again. 

The boys went for their first football match in the PSV stadium in Eindhoven. It was my first too. The size of the field and watching the players up close was thrilling. ZTo make things even sweeter, PSV won!

Before my parents came, our wonderful friends the David family finally came to visit us all. Now, they lived here in Veldhoven and moved back to the States. And we were planning to visit them there. But , God works in funny ways... They moved to Budapest. And that makes it a bit more easier to see them. More on their trip and seeing my best friend who is completely my opposite but we love watching "Fixer upper" on my Write 31 days posts.

Bobby made a 1 week trip to Shanghai in between this for work. He kept on sending pictures of all the yummy food he ate there!

The week and the weekend came and went like a storm and before we knew it, it was just us in the house. Noisy enough, but the boys missed Appacha, Ammachi and Tutu mama.

My father

My brother and the boys

My parents

The world of Sinterklaas descended upon us quite quickly. From here on , it was all about following the events of the Sinterklaas story on the "Sinterklass Journaal" on TV.And also gifts come with this celebration at the end of it. Sinterklaas left for Spain and it was the Christmas Fair and Outreach following right after. In between all this there was a shower of baby showers that we hosted and attended. 

The 4th Annual Christmas fair  happened again this year and I had a few goodies for sale. We raised 1447 Euros in 2 hours. The money that was raised will be distributed among the various mission Trinity Church Eindhoven supports. Some of the things I made:

Chicken curry spice mix

Christmas cake  pre-ordered 

Another Christmas cake

Homemade Lavender Body butter

Christmas cake in a jar for friends as gifts

Some more gifts for collegues

On the 13th of December the kids performed their Kidzchurch musical. Benjamin was one of the wise men and Elijah was a sheep. He had talking parts too. They did a wonderful job at it. "Straw and Order" was fun and a hit.The Kidzchurch leaders did an amazing job making the musical a hit.


The week before, the Indians from our church organized the 3rd Outreach program for other Indian families in Eindhoven. The theme of the program was "real joy". A wonderful mime was performed showing how different distractions such as money, fame, status, social media get in the way in between the real joy giver (Jesus) and joys of this world. The event ended with a wonderful Indian dinner.

I am sure I have missed out a few more things and events, in this mish mash of a post.this should have been written out when these things happened. But it was a fun filled, busy, two months!
Now, waiting for Christmas!