Christmas party for the vegetable ladies

Every year this missionary lady (Grandma Jean to us) does a little Christmas party for the vegetable ladies who sit in this little market area every day trying to sell their vegetables. They used to come to the door to sell them but were getting a little too forceful and knocking on doors very early in the morning ( and also having to carry these big bags of vegetables and fruit on their heads) so now we go to them! So every Christmas Jean (and now the 3 Bray girls) make

cookies decorated with their initials on them and bring juice and walk down the street to the market. We all sing Christmas songs (they join in both in English and Swahili) and then we serve cookies and juice. This year Jean asked the girls to do a little Irish dance for them to "jingle bells" on the accordion, the ladies loved it! Jean prayed with each of the ladies and we tried to buy one thing from each of them, not an easy task as they are putting 6 tomatoes in a bag and saying "you take 6" as we are saying "we just need one"!!