A local church put on a live nativity this weekend. They had real animals in the stable outside, and inside they had hundreds of Creches from all over the world. They had choirs performing and also put on a large drama production. The production was mostly teenagers and Kaitlin was friends with most of them. The even gave us a cookie. Kaitlin and Ruth also went to another live nativity with their youth group. This one was a well done recreation of Bethlehem, with animals and beggars and everything. It was a great way to bring in the Christmas season.
After much insistence from the children, Chuck dug out the Christmas decorations this weekend and we got to work. Chuck climbed up on the roof and Ruth started putting up all the lights on the front yard. Jared put lights on the tree and hung the stockings. Kaitlin cut out snowflakes to put on the wall. Everything goes so much faster when everyone helps.
The first Christmas we put up lights at this house we learned that the outlets up in the eaves didn't work. Chuck looked all over the house trying to figure out how to get power to those outlets without success. This year (six years later) Chuck grabbed a flashlight and decided he would try one more time to see if he could find how to connect those outlets. Amazingly, a rift opened in the space and time continuum and a magic switch appeared in our coat closet. In the seven years we have lived here, we've never seen that switch before. But like some Christmas miracle, there it was. Now our outdoor light turn on and off with a flick of a switch.
Jared entered a video (the stop motion lego video I posted a few months ago) into his school's Reflections contest and this week he was surprised with a pizza party because his video is advancing to the council level. We also got word that Ruth has both an original song and a literature entry that have also won at the middle school and will be going on to regionals. We'll keep you posted on how they do.
1 comment:
Wow - a magical switch - that's awesome. This year we had ours plug into an outlet plug with a remote. (last year's clearance purchase). So much nicer than having to go outside to plug them in every night.
Congrats to Ruth and Jared!
And I agree about the decorating. This year was harder trying to figure out where to put decorations in a new house, but Nathan helped more than he ever has and it was great!
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