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curiouswombatI haven't updated properly for over a week - bad wombat!
So - Daughter-dear is home, she looks well, seems to have avoided Fresher's weight gain, and whilst happy to be home misses the new, York, friends. This is good - it just confirms for me that she is happy there, and doing well. It is lovely to have her home, but also lovely to not have to worry about her when she goes back. She is doing well academically, gaining good marks for her essays, and soaking up the lectures like a little sponge.
I must have missed my LJ 2 year anniversary, because I remember that my first entry was about the Church Nativity Service, and we had this year's on Sunday.
As usual it went well, everyone said 'What a lovely service,' - and as usual that was only what could be seen from the congregation! In fact 18 year old Slightly-Goth niece arrived just nano-seconds before the minister came in, and she was doing one of the readings, and the 18 year old who was to be Joseph had been at a party the night before, and was rather hung-over. He still managed to get to church, and get his costume on, but during the first carol had to dash out to be sick!
Realising what was happening, one of the men in the congregation went to check on him - and when we first started to tell the story of Gabriel appearing to Mary, as I looked down from the sanctuary there was no 'Joseph' in Church! But during the carol before he was to take his place in the tableau a figure came in, in the costume, and I realised that it was Kevin, the man who had gone to check on Max - he had taken over!
It was absolutely fine - he is a tall man in his early forties, and looked fine behind my 15 year old 'Mary' - and as it was a tableau rather than a spoken play, very few people actually twigged that the 'Joseph' in front of them was not the one who had come into Church in the costume 15 minutes earlier! Max made it in to sit and watch the rest of the service.
None of the photos I took are any good - I had knocked my camera off 'automatic' onto 'manual' without noticing, and they were all out of focus. I will see if I can get copies from someone - my friend Alison was taking some - she ended up being the only member of her family not in the tableau as one of her daughters was an angel, the other a shepherd, and her husband is the aforementioned quick-witted Kevin.
I am still at work, all week, and have baking and stuff still to do, presents to wrap, and a chapter of Access All Areas to finish before Christmas Day!
So thanks to everyone who has sent cards and e-cards (Love that cat, 'Tales' - and when I opened it and the sound track started our cat sat bolt upright and gave the computer a 'hard stare'). I apologise for skimming the FL a bit, if I haven't commented where I should please accept apologies!
So - Daughter-dear is home, she looks well, seems to have avoided Fresher's weight gain, and whilst happy to be home misses the new, York, friends. This is good - it just confirms for me that she is happy there, and doing well. It is lovely to have her home, but also lovely to not have to worry about her when she goes back. She is doing well academically, gaining good marks for her essays, and soaking up the lectures like a little sponge.
I must have missed my LJ 2 year anniversary, because I remember that my first entry was about the Church Nativity Service, and we had this year's on Sunday.
As usual it went well, everyone said 'What a lovely service,' - and as usual that was only what could be seen from the congregation! In fact 18 year old Slightly-Goth niece arrived just nano-seconds before the minister came in, and she was doing one of the readings, and the 18 year old who was to be Joseph had been at a party the night before, and was rather hung-over. He still managed to get to church, and get his costume on, but during the first carol had to dash out to be sick!
Realising what was happening, one of the men in the congregation went to check on him - and when we first started to tell the story of Gabriel appearing to Mary, as I looked down from the sanctuary there was no 'Joseph' in Church! But during the carol before he was to take his place in the tableau a figure came in, in the costume, and I realised that it was Kevin, the man who had gone to check on Max - he had taken over!
It was absolutely fine - he is a tall man in his early forties, and looked fine behind my 15 year old 'Mary' - and as it was a tableau rather than a spoken play, very few people actually twigged that the 'Joseph' in front of them was not the one who had come into Church in the costume 15 minutes earlier! Max made it in to sit and watch the rest of the service.
None of the photos I took are any good - I had knocked my camera off 'automatic' onto 'manual' without noticing, and they were all out of focus. I will see if I can get copies from someone - my friend Alison was taking some - she ended up being the only member of her family not in the tableau as one of her daughters was an angel, the other a shepherd, and her husband is the aforementioned quick-witted Kevin.
I am still at work, all week, and have baking and stuff still to do, presents to wrap, and a chapter of Access All Areas to finish before Christmas Day!
So thanks to everyone who has sent cards and e-cards (Love that cat, 'Tales' - and when I opened it and the sound track started our cat sat bolt upright and gave the computer a 'hard stare'). I apologise for skimming the FL a bit, if I haven't commented where I should please accept apologies!
