Dickens’ Festival

We have, in our area, a fun festival called the Dickens’ Festival from Charles Dickens’ novel - The Christmas Carol. Little stores are decorated at the state fairgrounds to look like Victorian London. All the vendors dress up like Dickens’ characters and even adopt the accent. There are carriage rides, fish and chips to eat, open fires to warm your hands at. You can eat roasted chestnuts and then our favorite is Father Christmas. Each time we have a new baby we return to the Dickens’ festival because we have to update our photo with Father Christmas with the new baby. On our wall we have framed the most memorable photographs. The first year we attended the Dickens’ Festival, Joseph was 6 weeks old and in the photograph you can see clearly the cords for his Apnea monitor. In last year’s photo, no one is looking at the camera. Miriam is holding a gooey candy cane, Father Christmas was trying to appease her, Caleb has his bottom lip sticking out, as he enters his stranger-anxiety phase and the rest of the children look at though, given the opportunity, they would rather run and hide. This years’ is sweet, Caleb has the appeasement candy cane and the children all look as though they have finally got it down...I love tradition!

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