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Can you endure one more Christmas tale? One more set of family Christmas pictures? One more glimpse at a family holiday gathering? Oh, goody...then sit back, relax and enjoy this peek into our visit to South Carolina at Debbles107's house. I promise it is anything but sane, normal or routine.... First of all, to give credit where it's due, what follows was all his idea...
Before we ever arrived, my nephew Braden, had written and made costumes for a Christmas pageant. I argued quite a bit over my role as a shepherdess, trying to talk him into letting me be a sheep, but it was to no avail. He wouldn't budge. I think we spent more time getting ready for the production than actually performing it. Indiana Mimi and I had quite a time getting into our shepherdess roles. At first we went non-traditional, actually putting the sheep hats on our own heads. We even tucked in a couple of Webkinz for good measure. I don't know...I think we might be onto something for the shepherding industry. With your animals tucked into your hats, you have your hands free for bear or lion or wolf wrestling.
We finally just settled on the blanket-tied-to-your-head look and put the sheep hat on Bridget.
Bridget was playing the role of a deaf and blind sheep because she immediately tore the ears off the hat and mostly wore it covering her eyes. Amazingly she only ran headlong into the Christmas tree once.
Here's a whole bunch of us getting ready. See my brother-in-law, Brady? That's how most of us were feeling at this moment.
We found a Bible for the narrator, Big D, and we were all set. He was thrilled. I promise.
First, the Holy family made it's way into Bethlehem to pay their taxes. The Baby Jesus in our play was already 8 months old and chubby to boot, so we had to fore go the birth scene. Also, please ignore that Mary is wearing glasses, that Joseph is wearing a tee-shirt that says "America 1776" and that Jesus is a red head. Just try, okay?
In a field nearby there were two shepherdesses watching over their one blind, deaf sheep by night. "Get down and be still, blind-deaf sheep," they said.
When suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared to them. She had just showered and her hair was still wet. She was adorned in a puppy and kitten tee-shirt and pipe-cleaner head gear, and she said, "Fear not, I bring you glad tidings of great joy...."
The shepherdesses were sore afraid. I'm talking SORE afraid...
Or was that SORE insane?
There were also three magi who followed a star to find the King of the Jews who had just been born. They stopped playing their new PlayStation long enough to go seek Him. They were Benjamin Magi, bedecked in his Incredible Hulk shirt...
and Harrison and Braden Magi...
The Harrison Magi really needs a haircut, and Braden Magi decided to bring along his Nonny. They presented their gifts of gold pirate coins, silver tokens (perhaps from Chuck E. Cheese...?), and some Burt's Bees diaper ointment. They also let them keep the Styrofoam bowls in which the gifts were carried. Baby Jesus was particularly interested in choking on the gold coins. Thankfully, Mary and Joseph were good parents and took them away from him.
And then, just like that, we were finished. Ta-da!
Braden said to me later, "Ya' know, Aunt Cookie, that was a great play, and we didn't even rehearse." No, Braden, we surely didn't. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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