Summary of article in Billed Bladet #1, 2013.
Mormors dreng - (Maternal) grandmother's boy.
Written by Ken Richter.
Who spend Christmas standing outside Møgeltønder Church.
Bette Henrik held mormor Francoise' hand while going to church on Christmas Day (the 25th) and they spoke French together our reporter noted.
In fact the whole family went to service in the forenoon of the 25th, but when you are only three years old an hour is perhaps as long as can be expected of you, so Francoise Grassiot took her grandson outside and went into the car. Only to be joined shortly after by Christian Grassiot, Felix and Marie, who drove the little family back to Schackenborg. She did have time to send our reporter a smile: "Merry Christmas".
Joachim, Nikolai and the Regent Couple along with their very good friend pastor Parkov held out to the bitter end and Joachim hitched a ride in the crown car back to Schackenborg.
(An article about M&F will be added to this post shortly).
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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #1, 2013.
Krudtugler i kirke - Black powder owls (*) to church.
Written by Malan Vincent Joensen.
M&F went to church on Christmas Eve, in the afternoon along with their two oldest children and some friends with even more children.
In front was Christian. Followed by M&F walking arm in arm and with a lively Isabella holding mother's hand, when she wasn't busy swinging her arms and what not.
With them went Amber Petty, Jeppe and Birgitte Handwerk with their daughters India and Palma.
M&F were obviously expected, because they sat on the best seats in the front. Mary next to Amber and Isabella between mom and dad. Christian being older entertained Palma and India.
Buuut, it
was Christmas Eve and Christian sat unruly.
Isabella too had some excitement to burn off and what to do if you sit in a church? Well, you grab a fan and make sure mom and auntie Amber get plenty of fresh air. That' hard work! So Bella had to sit on dad's lap for a while to gain strength.
A number of wll knowns psalms were sung, including FasterB's favorite: A Child has been born in Bethlehem.
But to please FasterB and in the name of healthy cultural exchange I bid you this very good (and popular) rock version of an even more popular Christmas Psalm, Dejlig er Jorden - Lovely is the Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8fPN7EiXAE
(*) A krudtugle = A black-powder-owl = a lively child who has problems sitting still for more than six nano-seconds.