Saturday, November 5, 2011

Thoughts on the Nativity Scene

Is it too early for our Christmas tree to be up???

That's too bad if it is - we already did it. We'll be out of town for all of Thanksgiving (normally when we would put our tree up), and we'll be out of town for the week of Christmas - I decided we might as well enjoy two months of the holiday season instead of three weeks.

Wal-Mart has all of its Christmas items out already, so I thought we'd be able to find ornament hangers there. (I didn't.) As we were walking through the Christmas section, Autumn happened upon a Nativity scene. She asked curiously, "What's that?"

I explained to her that it was called a Nativity Scene - she said it back to me, and I have to admit I was kind of glad she said it correctly. I grew up calling it an "activity scene." ... I digress.

Anyway, she wanted to know what it was. I told her that it was little statues showing Jesus' birth. I didn't get into details, just a simple explanation. I was sure it would elicit questions, but she only had one thing to say...

"He looks like a girl."

Well, then!

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