Celebrate a Country Day- Paraguay

As some of you may remember, I invented a few holidays a few years ago and have since consistently marked the calendar each time with the "Celebrate a Country Day." There is no set day other than it needs to be during January.

The first year I remembered last minute and so we celebrated Italy, because pasta is easy to make...
The next year we did LAOS and last year we did BOTSWANA.

This year we did:

Paraguay

I chose Paraguay because we needed to get a country in South America and I have a good friend who served her mission there, so she obviously knows all about it. She ended up having some native friends come and make all the food,

which was all very yellow and tasted great,

and sing us the songs of their country.

My friend did a short presentation of the history and gave us a language thought and then showed us some photos of the country side. I'm telling you, these parties just keep getting more legitimate as the years go. I even got to have some intense local tea.

So a big THANK YOU is in order to my friend and her friends from Paraguay. In the end I didn't have to do anything but show up and bring paper plates and cups... which was awesome since I'm so pregnant. But I felt a like I asked her to throw me a party and then invited my friends to her house. hahah but I think everything went well and the Paraguayans seemed to enjoy teaching us about their home.

I am really happy that I decided to do this, it's been awesome so far. Each time we learn about a country and normally when I run the party I do a lot of research and cooking and I never forget the things I learn. I might not be able to travel right now but this is a way to stay feeling somewhat connected to the family we all share around the world.

Can you even wait to know what country we are doing next year? ;)