St Lucia Festival of Lights

St Lucia’s Day is celebrated on 13 December. On Tuesday evening all the children at Hugo’s preschool performed the St Lucia song for parents and grandparents. Actually Hugo told me he didn’t want to go because he didn’t know the song and he didn’t want to sing it so I encouraged him to stay with the other kids even if he didn’t want to sing. As it happened NONE of the children sang, but the teachers did a great job haha.

One of the anomalies of living in Australia is that we have a very “European” idea of Christmas, with snow and reindeer and candles and all those seasonally inappropriate things. It’s actually much easier to understand Christmas from a European experience. To have good food, candles, bright trees, gifts and a festival of light in the midst of long, dark nights and short, dark days is something to celebrate and look forward to.