If you want to feel some Christmas joy, hit up a kid's Christmas pageant. I'm not talking about a mega-church performance with kids flying through the air and choreography. I'm talking about your run of the mill, hometown, everyone has a part, no budget, home made costume, kind of play. They are the best! The kids are brimming with cuteness and confusion. There are cameras galore, flashes of light going off every 30 seconds to capture junior picking his nose or pulling down her underwear/diaper.
This year no one lost baby Jesus. Praise him!
There were four readers at the lecterns, alternating parts of the story. These are the kids who are old enough to read, but still young enough to want to participate. We made a lamb costume for Cass out of hot glue, cotton balls, Easter bunny ears, and a dress. Savvy was the littlest angel :-) She would walk down the aisle and stop. Just taking her sweet time, absorbing all the oohs and aahs aimed her way. Cass was practicing her Baa Baa and Savvy was helping. Awesomeness abounds with those two. It was a beautiful play with each child/kid doing a great job.
There are a few Advent Adventures below. Each day we unwrap a present of presence; requiring us to do something together as a family. Using a fun new popcorn maker from our friend Idonas, we made popcorn the old fashioned way and hit up neighborhoods for Christmas light viewing. Another day we wrote a letter to Santa and mailed it. There's also a picture of Matt putting up the tree he and Cass went to cut down!
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