Christmas Doin's

I want to thank all of you for your prayers for me this week. They are helping me to calm down and let the words soak into my soul so they can come out of my mouth. I do agree with you that the inability to learn the words is directly related to the amount of "stuff" in my life right now - the hard drive is on overload.

I read something the other day that I found interesting - "You have a lot of brussel sprouts on your plate, but no dessert." I indeed have a lot of brussel sprouts, but I do indeed have dessert as well. Who couldn't love Christmas time with 4 adorable little girls around?

We finally did get the tree up. Care Bear was a big help. She of course would like to put up my second, designer tree, but I don't see that happening.




I finally did get the three child friendly nativity sets out yesterday and it is such fun to see a third round of little girlies enjoying them. This Fisher Price set plays "Away in a Manger" when you press the angel on top of the stable.

They decided all of the animals needed a bath, I guess.

This set plays the Christmas story when you press the button - and it starts over every time you press the button - over and over again. The Fisher Price Jesus has been added to this scene.




This set has lost Baby Jesus already - I told the littles that it's sad to lose Baby Jesus, as long as we don't lose Him from our hearts - Katie says, "Jesus in my heart." I love it!




It's good to have Dora on your side when you're trying to get stuff done - even though I do get a tad bit tired of hearing her voice all the time.






Wednesday night was the kids' school program - a really bad night for us, since it was an important rehearsal for their church program as well as one of our last choir rehearsals for our adult program. DC went to church with the littles (so they could play in the nursery and I could video tape the program). The big girls posed before we left for school.




These are lousy pictures taken from a distance in the dark, but the best I could do.






We did something I don't like to do and left right after Care Bear's class finished so that we could get back to church for a few minutes of practice. What a busy night!


I think Feisty would like to have her ears pierced, based on the fact that she wore these ornaments hanging around here ears all last night.






Friday evening was the annual women's Christmas tea at church. It is always such a lovely occasion with each table being decorated by a talented person - obviously I have never done one~ My SIL did the table I was assigned to, along with my sister and my mom. It was a great evening.



We each were given an ornament as a gift from our hostess - you can see mine on the napkin.




I took a picture of only one other table, since it was so amazing. The china was from England and each plate depicted a different village. The hostess created a village as the centerpiece, with beautiful buildings she and her children had painted over the years. Amazing. I can't even paint a wall well!





So today was the kids' musical at church - they get better every year. I did the kids' musicals for years and I know how much work is involved. But this lady and her family who do the directing and the decorating and the costumes are A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! What fun it was. And icing on the cake was when they paraded in the nursery kids and gave them each a gift. The twins were really having a good time and were on their most precocious behavior.






Then it was "show time." The gospel story was presented in a very entertaining way - the stars in the heavens looking down on the scene. I know - too many pictures, but skip as many as you wish!

Livi was privileged to be Mary in a cameo performance.




I love it that the angel's costumes are being re-used from when I made (with help) about 20 of them as choir robes about 25 years ago.

Care Bear was one of the "Wee Three Kings."

One of my fellow choir members said to me this morning that the children's choir had set the bar high for us next Sunday. I agreed wholeheartedly - especially since I'm having trouble memorizing the words and they not only had all the words down, but did choreography with every song. Needless to say, it started our week out with a happy bang.


I'm going to close with a statement I found in the newspaper - No Words Necessary.

Have a blessed week!