Laugh­ter, mu­sic and the spir­it of Christ­mas filled Ram­bert Vil­lage, La Ro­maine, as the chil­dren of late pri­vate school teacher Ena Sir­ju car­ried on her four-decade tra­di­tion of giv­ing by host­ing a fes­tive com­mu­ni­ty treat in her mem­o­ry, months af­ter her death in April.

More than 200 chil­dren gath­ered on Sun­day for the an­nu­al Christ­mas event. Sir­ju be­gan the tra­di­tion 40 years ago, and her daugh­ter, Shar­da Ho­sein, flew in from Flori­da to help car­ry on both the cel­e­bra­tion and her moth­er’s lega­cy of car­ing for chil­dren.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Ho­sein said she was proud to car­ry on the tra­di­tion.