This is a school project Kyla did, and I just wanted to share her dramatic nature in her telling of the Christmas Story as well as the her new writing skills and spelling. ENJOY!!
Next thing I have to move out of this room, is this super plush Futon. It is queen size and has an outdoor theme on it, including moose, bear, and mountains. I am asking $300 for it.
Then the final item, is this great desk. Remember it was our office, and we are turning the office space into a play room so, the desk, with matching upper hutch and bookcase are going for $600.
So, let me know if you have the desk's or if you want any of my office stuff!!! Thanks a ton!
This is a little story e-mailed to me by my good friend VELMA JEAN and I wanted to share it with you. If you want to do it or even if you want to do it for someone else...so good!!
BABY JESUS STORY- (12 DAYS of CHRISTmas)
Halfway through December, we were doing the regular evening things when there was a knock at our door. We opened it to find a small package with a beautiful ceramic lamb inside. We looked at the calendar and realized that the 12 days of Christmas were beginning! We were waiting excitedly for the next night's surprise and only then, with the gift of a matching shepherd, did we realize that the lamb was part of a nativity set.
Each night we grew more excited to see what piece we would receive. Each was exquisitely beautiful. The kids kept trying to catch the givers as we slowly built the scene at the manger and began to focus on the birth of the Savior.
On Christmas Eve, all of the pieces were in place except for the baby Jesus. My 12 year old son really wanted to catch our benefactors and began to devise all kinds of ways to trap them. He ate his dinner in the mini-van watching and waiting, but no one came.
Finally we called him in to go through our family's Christmas Eve traditions. But before the kids went to bed we checked the front step-No baby Jesus! We began to worry that my son had scared them off. My husband suggested that maybe they had dropped the baby Jesus and there wouldn't be anything coming. Somehow, something was missing that Christmas Eve evening. There was a feeling that things were not complete. The kids went to bed and I put out Christmas, but before I went to bed I again checked to see if Jesus had come - but no – the door step was empty.
In our family, the kids can open their stockings when they want to, but they have to wait to open any presents until Dad wakes up. So one by one, they woke up very early. I awoke to watch them. Even before they opened their stockings, each child checked to see if perhaps during the night the baby Jesus had come. Missing that piece of the set seemed to have an odd effect. At least it changed my focus. I knew that there were presents under the tree for me and I was excited to watch the kids open their gifts, but first on my mind was the feeling of waiting for the arrival of the ceramic Christ Child. We had opened just about all of the presents when one of the children found one more for me hidden in the branches of the tree. He handed me a small package from my former visiting teaching companion. This sister was somewhat less-active in the church. I had been her visiting teacher for a couple of years and then, when she asked to be a visiting teacher, she requested to go with me. I had learned over time that they did not have much for Christmas, so their focus was on the children. It sounded like she didn't have many gifts to open, so I had always given her a small package- new dish towels, the next year's Relief Society lesson manual – not much, but something for her to open. I was touched when at Church on the day before Christmas, she had given me this small package, saying it was just a small token of her love and appreciation. As I took off the bow, I remembered my friendship with her and was filled with gratitude for knowing her and for her kindness and sacrifice in this year giving me a gift. As the paper fell away, I began to tremble and cry. There in the small brown box was the Baby Jesus! He had COME!
I realized on that Christmas Day that Christ will come into our lives in ways that we don't expect. The Spirit of Christ comes into our hearts as we serve one another. We had waited and watched and listened for Him to come, expecting the dramatic "knock at the door and scurrying of feet" but He came in a small, simple package that represented service, friendship, gratitude and love.
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