Days of Christmas 2010: Day Eight

It is good to be children sometimes, 

and never better than at Christmas 

when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

~Charles Dickens

Tonight we took our Sunday School kids to see a local living nativity (and Bethlehem recreation). They loved it! Their favorite part was the nativity itself and the youngest also loved the "Sheep!"  :) It is so wonderful to help someone understand the true meaning of the season for the first time!

(thanks to Angie for sharing her picture for my blog!!)  :)

Days of Christmas 2010: Day Seven

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."

Larry Wilde

This one is only about 4 1/2 feet, but it sure is fun! It is my "new" tree, CocaCola themed! And it's in our family room, of course! :)  I love it!! :)

Christmas 2010

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Days of Christmas 2010: Day Six

Christmas crafting... unfortunately  the seam ripper WILL be playing an important part in this project! (Why can't I "accidentally" do it the right way? It's theoretically just as easy, right?  :)

Christmas Blessing

Wrapped was the world in slumber deep,
By seaward valley and cedarn steep,
And bright and blest were the dreams of its sleep;
All the hours of that wonderful night-tide through

The stars outblossomed in fields of blue,
A heavenly chaplet, to diadem
The King in the manger of Bethlehem.

Out on the hills the shepherds lay,
Wakeful, that never a lamb might stray,
Humble and clean of heart were they;
Thus it was given them to hear
Marvellous harpings strange and clear,
Thus it was given them to see
The heralds of the nativity.

In the dim-lit stable the mother mild
Looked with holy eyes on her child,
Cradled him close to her heart and smiled;
Kingly purple nor crown had he,
Never a trapping of royalty;
But Mary saw that the baby's head
With a slender nimbus was garlanded.

Speechless her joy as she watched him there,
Forgetful of pain and grief and care,
And every thought in her soul was a prayer;
While under the dome of the desert sky
The Kings of the East from afar drew nigh,
And the great white star that was guide to them
Kept ward o'er the manger of Bethlehem. 

The Christmas Night
by Lucy Maud Montgomery