Housewarming

We had a housewarming party last night, which was great fun.

Lots of friends came over and mingled

We hung out on the balcony

The kids mostly played in Littletree's room

We made a toast, with Purple's home made fruit liqueurs

And I made a little ceremony of lighting the fire, using a coal from the fireplace at our old house. The idea being to follow on a tradition of carrying coals when travelling, so you always start a new fire from the old one.

I also asked everyone to bring a token piece of wood for the fire, to symbolise the community building our house. Since traditionally communities helped each other to build their houses, I wanted something to represent that. Of course, it's the middle of Summer here, and way to hot to have a blazing fire, so we just got it going and then let it go out again. Still it was nice to have the ritual of it.

We had a great night, chatting, eating way too much good food, lots of laughter and of course, JJ's antics