What a week. January 6th was Armenian Christmas AND the day of the riot at the US Capitol.
I chose to work in the morning, while my mother-in-law had the day off and watched church with our kids. I was planning on celebrating Christmas that evening, but then was so overwhelmed and distracted by the news. I was telling Hagopig, “today is a very important day” – referring to the riot – and Vartan absolutely, rightly called me out on it. Christmas ultimately is more important than anything happening in current events. But I really feel like I missed the opportunity to celebrate and teach Hagopig about Christmas that day.
Thank goodness for the OCTAVE of Nativity, because it gave me the opportunity to try again for the next few days following.
We talked about how we were celebrating Jesus’s birthday, sung “happy birthday” to Jesus, and got Hagop a little activity book about the life of Jesus. It led to some pretty adorable and hilarious singing from Hagop (“happy birthday Jesus birthday hat” and “Jesus shark doo doo” are standouts).
Hye Home 