The Rambunctious Rambler

Launch of Little Piggy Design

Unlike last year with a lot of family coming down for Christmas, this year we were going to have a quite Christmas. I took 4 days off to enjoy the Christmas week which began with making sweets and putting up the traditional Christmas tree and decorations. Ruth volunteered to make the crib this year. Did [...]

The 12 days of Christmas, folklore claims, is a story (now a carol) that the Christians put together to instruct the children in the Catholic Faith when the faith was being persecuted.
Here is how the Carol goes -
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree
Symbolizing [...]

I’ve always been interested in nativity scenes that are different, so I really like this one that Malcolm made. (you can read about his efforts on his blog)

Here’s wishing you all a Very Special Christmas

The feast of Christ the King is considered the last day of the Christian liturgical year and with Advent the new year begins (I’ve wondered about the week in between the 2 Sundays and the kind of limbo the Church seems to be in , must find out about it sometime)
As part of advent, we [...]

Looking back at the Christmas season, all I can say is that it was indeed a very Merry Christmas
Here are some pics from the season

My Grandpa always made a crib to herald in the Christ child and us making it every year is a tribute to his memory.

The kids from the area got [...]

We met over the Christmas week for lunch at Priyanka’s house. We sure did have a good time opening presents like we were 5 year olds and playing musical chairs! (Yup and before someone says it I also had the best snooze I had all week ) Aunty Marisa gave us a real spread [...]