Searching for Jesus....

Every year Santa visits our house, he enjoys his cookies and milk and then sets up the kids nativity scene as a reminder to the true meaning of Christmas. The kids love the nativity scene and play with it throughout the holiday season which gives us a chance to talk about all the different people/animals who played a role in the marvelous event of Jesus' birth. Well, this year was a hard year to be a member of our nativity scene. G2 apparently was trying to teach the angel to fly and threw it with his amazing throwing arm into the fireplace hearth--CRACK went the wing and we had a one winged angel. And for unknown reasons, G2 was determined to make have Joseph presenting the Christ-child to all the onlookers with only one arm and before we knew it, we had Joseph the amputee. Then, Olivia, the lab who has really never chewed on anything, got hungry for a little donkey one evening and we suddenly have a donkey who cannot see nor hear evil. Ok, ok, I am thinking, it is really important to me the kids have this hands on nativity scene so this is all just adding character to our set.

Well, Christmas eve comes and Santa has arrived to set up the nativity scene....he gets the super glue out of his sled and repairs the angel wing and re-attaches Josephs arm. He takes one look at the donkey and promptly declares that a lost cause. But then....Jesus is MIA. No where to be found. He is not in the toy box upstairs. He is not under the couch cushions. In desperation, Santa sticks his arm into the depths of the couch and even though there were some very interesting items, there was no Jesus. What is Santa to do?

Thankfully, Santa has a lot of foresight and suddenly remembers he has purchased an extra nativity scene (not sure why it took Santa 45 minutes to remember this!) And so we had Jesus to help us celebrate on Christmas morning!