A special day for Leah.....

 Today a bunch of young people at our church received Bibles.Leah was one of them.  The kids had attended  a course from January where they went through the basics of Chistianity. 

 Today they were all up on stage and asked a few questions. (Here is Leah answering her question.)

 Then they received their Bibles. Leah already has a Danish Bible so she had wished for an English Bible; "The girls application study Bible" with a bright pink cover! She got her wish!! Then a blessing was prayed over all the young people, it was really lovely.

 Most Danish kids get confirmed at this age and they hold a BIG party and I mean BIG...it is such a big thing over here to get confirmed. 


Anyway since our church is not a state church we do not do confirmation but the kids that get a Bible usually use this special occassion as a time to hold a party. Today most of the kids had a lot of family and friends at church and they were going home to hold a BIG party with their guests.


We are not the typical Danish family, and I am not so into confirmation parties, I think it´s a bit over the top, but then again it´s not my tradition, I didn´t grow up with it.  So Leah wasn´t expecting anyting to happen. 

 Even though I am not into these type of parties  I am still a mother that wants her kid to have a good day and not feel that she is missing out on something, so I had invited Kristian´s mum and dad to church and then home to lunch. 

Leah had invited her friend Cecille to be there too. 


Kristian and I had bought a wee present for Leah - a blouse, a make-up bag and a giftcard to our local "Boots". Sara and Andrew made her a present for a cosy night at home which contained cute tins filled with sweets, a mug with hot chocolate and a film. Granny and Granda Rasmussen bought her a giftcard to buy something for herself and her friend Cecille bought her a braclet. She was over the moon with it all as she had not been expecting anything to happen.

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 We picked up a few Roses going cheap (they were on their last legs!) but Leah was over the moon with them!!

 And then there was her Bible which she really loved. She was over the moon with that too!

I tried to make the "party" feel like a real Danish party by having a song that we had to sing about Leah. I wrote the words to the tune of  "6 miles from Bangor to Donaghadee" we had a laugh with that.

All in all I think she had a great day!! The best part for me was this evening when on her way to bed she said "Thanks mum for all the things you did for me today" Now that made all the hard work over the last few days worthwhile!!