Linus Christmas Monologue

He prepared a wonderful dinner, and we had besides the six of us my stepdaughter and a guest, two friends, and later on my MIL for dessert (she prepared a dinner at her house and had her other son, DIL and grandson over). My mom and stepdad couldn’t make it for dinner but they came Wednesday afternoon for a visit and brought a washtub full of greens: collards, kale, turnip and mustard greens. My husband cooked them in a big stock pot with 2lbs of country ham chips and were they ever so good! They had a chance to grow out in the frost (since we had several nights around or just below freezing in VA already) so they weren’t the least bit bitter, they were actually a little sweet.

My kids all had kind of a sniffly, runny nose thing going since about Tue-Wed., but by Thu. night they were icky sick, so I’ve got that to deal with.

I bought a blowmold light-up Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus set from Walmart two yrs ago. Melissa (my eldest) was 3 when we got the threesome and was in love with them, wanting to hug them and kiss Baby Jesus whenever she went outside. I decided from then on that the focus of Christmas for our family is going to be on the Nativity, and I wanted the 3 Wise Men, shepherd(s) and animals to complete the set so I could have a visual lesson for my kids of what the true meaning of Christmas is about.

Alas, due to money constraints I didn’t get the rest of the nativity characters then nor last year.

Fast forward to this year. I heard Walmart isn’t selling them anymore (I didn’t see them on their website either) but still wanted them really bad. I put out some wanted requests on Freecycle and got no response. I searched Craigslist and found an ad for a whole bunch of blowmold yard ornaments for sale, including a Nativity set. I called, they were still available, so I drove out tonight and got 2 of everything in the Nativity minus the cow (the lady said she couldn’t say no to blowmold ornaments – don’t ask me why nor how she lost the cows) for $75. I can probably resell the duplicate pieces.

So, I got my front yard Nativity set! Praise the Lord! I plan to put them out this weekend before it rains.