Wednesday, December 23, 2009

I guess it worked!

This year it was our hope to have a Christ centered Christmas and I do believe we've succeeded. We purchased a nativity set for our kids this year and hoped that they would play with it and be able to grasp the idea of the nativity story a little better. Everyday they play with it, and everynight I set it back up, staged to look like all the other nativities in our home; Mary and Joseph looking at the Christ child, with shepherds and wisemen set to their perspective sides. And every morning I come out of my room to our nativity set like this:
My sweet Jaxson sets up our set regularly like this and it makes me smile. Every single figure is looking at the true reason that we celebrate. I guess we accomplished what we set out to do.

As a side note, some of the more observant amongst you may have noticed that we have 2 baby Jesus' in our nativity this year. Our first baby we believed was flushed within hours of his arrival at our home, and what's a nativity without a baby Jesus. So I quickly hoped on line and found a replacement Jesus from a different set. That baby came yesterday and today I located our other Jesus, under the board games in the closet (why didn't I think to look there!). So now we have a spare!

5 comments:

bunchocoffeys said...

Haha, Kaela used to stick all the figurines in mom's porcelain set (quite a few pieces) all huddled up close around baby Jesus, too. Smart kids!

Jalyn said...

Love it!

balloongal said...

That's beautiful. You must be thrilled with your kids.

J and J Black said...

What a boy. It must be the Black coming out in him. HA HA

vicki said...

just think if jesus had been twins just as well as elvis it would have been amazing