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curiouswombatSo hello! After much nagging from husband (S to C) I have finally got my own livejournal. After listing things in interests I realise that to a large extent I am currently too busy doing Christmas to do almost anything else. Have just spent about an hour and a half with Katherine (teenage daughter) browsing Australian gift sites to send Christmas things to in-laws. Definitly the easiest way to do it - wrapping things up so that they get there safely not my strong point!
Husband finally stood over me and forced me to open livejournal after I told him something that happened in Church this morning - he thought you'd all enjoy it, but he has finally decided that my excuse that there is no use having an author and doing your own writing was not good enough.
So - visualise scene - Sunday School group currently consists of 3 over 10's and about six 4-7s, plus a creche group, all older children now having 'graduated' to Church. Then everyone over age of 7 decides that they will be away on the Sunday before Christmas, when we traditionally do a Nativity in Church - so cast all below waist height!
We are talking about costumes - Daniel, who is to be Joseph, (as he is the oldest boy in the cast at five and a half!) asks 'Do I have anything to carry?' I answer that I haven't got anything at the moment, (thinking 'possibly a lantern?'). 'Well should I have a rolled up piece of carpet then?' asks Daniel. I am puzzled into silence. (A Carpet? Perhaps in the School Nativity he has just told me about they had a piece of carpet for Mary and Joseph to sit on?) After waiting for my non-existent answer, he continues 'Because Joseph was a Carpeter wasn't he?' !!! Will you ever be able to see a Nativity Play again without wondering where Joseph's carpet is?
Husband finally stood over me and forced me to open livejournal after I told him something that happened in Church this morning - he thought you'd all enjoy it, but he has finally decided that my excuse that there is no use having an author and doing your own writing was not good enough.
So - visualise scene - Sunday School group currently consists of 3 over 10's and about six 4-7s, plus a creche group, all older children now having 'graduated' to Church. Then everyone over age of 7 decides that they will be away on the Sunday before Christmas, when we traditionally do a Nativity in Church - so cast all below waist height!
We are talking about costumes - Daniel, who is to be Joseph, (as he is the oldest boy in the cast at five and a half!) asks 'Do I have anything to carry?' I answer that I haven't got anything at the moment, (thinking 'possibly a lantern?'). 'Well should I have a rolled up piece of carpet then?' asks Daniel. I am puzzled into silence. (A Carpet? Perhaps in the School Nativity he has just told me about they had a piece of carpet for Mary and Joseph to sit on?) After waiting for my non-existent answer, he continues 'Because Joseph was a Carpeter wasn't he?' !!! Will you ever be able to see a Nativity Play again without wondering where Joseph's carpet is?
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Date: 13/12/2004 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 13/12/2004 12:52 am (UTC)I also am a Celt by ancestry, as three of my grandparents were born in Wales and one in Cornwall.
Looking forward to more of your posts; you must be a very special lady, because your husband is such a gem.
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Date: 13/12/2004 01:18 pm (UTC)b) had to come upstairs after I'd gone to bed to point it out to me!!
I live in Greenwich Mean Time, whereas he tends to live in a timezone somwhat akin to Greenland! I go to bed about 4 hours before him, and get up about 3 hours before him - but then I start work about 6 hours before him - so you can see why we function in different time zones! Amazingly enough we do occasionally speak to each other in passing!
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Date: 13/12/2004 01:13 am (UTC)Our children's nativity play is next week. My older son (6th grade) was to wear pink (I'm not sure what this is all about - The Colors of Christmas I've been told) and explain about pink. His youth leader stopped me this morning and told me he'd gotten a reprieve, he's now a wise men.
I told him real men can wear pink. But your story is much better!
Friending you now.
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Date: 13/12/2004 01:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 13/12/2004 01:52 am (UTC)I remember a kid drawing a Nativity with a little fat man in the corner--"Round John Virgin."
And I just finished doing some on-line shopping too. Since none of our relatives live in the same part of the States as us, I agree it's the easiest way to handle things.
btw, don't let my icon scare you. Other things about me should scare you, but the sensible just ignore my icons.
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Date: 13/12/2004 01:32 pm (UTC)'All right', said Mum, but who is the other person - my rather indignant reply was that that was 'Pontius - The pilot'!!
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Date: 13/12/2004 01:43 pm (UTC)Welcome again. We have quite a bit in common, I think. I'm married to an insane person too, and we have two teenage daughters.
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Date: 13/12/2004 03:34 am (UTC)Welcome! :)
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Date: 13/12/2004 08:22 am (UTC)Cute story. Kids are the best 'cause they don't even realize they made a funny. It's just fun to see the world throught their eyes sometimes.
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Date: 13/12/2004 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 13/12/2004 10:13 am (UTC)You attend the URC? I attend the Canadian RC (not sure if that means anything to you, but yes. Thought I'd mention it)
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Date: 13/12/2004 07:27 pm (UTC)The 'curious' comes from a level in a silly game called Rocket Mania, where you can achieve the level of Curious Badger!!
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Date: 13/12/2004 04:47 pm (UTC)Will you ever be able to see a Nativity Play again without wondering where Joseph's carpet is?
I know I won't.
Welcome to LJ!
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Date: 13/12/2004 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 13/12/2004 06:01 pm (UTC)And, no. I will never be able to look at Joseph in quite the same way. :)
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Date: 13/12/2004 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 13/12/2004 08:17 pm (UTC)Puns are always welcome.
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Date: 13/12/2004 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 14/12/2004 04:05 pm (UTC)the madhouseLJ! Did your better half show you this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/claudia_yvr/128125.html)? Then again, that was probably plastered all over the news in the UK, lol.no subject
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Date: 15/12/2004 04:48 am (UTC)Welcome
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