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It's a New Year Already!

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This is a good representation of how we're living these days.  We did it. We did Christmas, and we did New Year's Eve, and we rested. We had the most hilarious family nativity ever! Rose Red filmed the whole thing (a video far too long to share here), and we watched it twice over because it felt so good to laugh and laugh and laugh. Finding no room in the inn This shepherd is "sore afraid" of the angel! "Unto us a Child is born!" I was reading the story as narrator, but I like to feed the kids lines sometimes.  I think I told Beowulf 4 times in a row that his line as a shepherd arriving at the stable was, "Is this the child?" He walked right up to the manger and said, "Is this the sheep?" We howled until our sides hurt. It took a while to get back on track and finish the story. Sir Walter Scott was a grumpy King Herod. The wise men look uncertain. But they made it to the baby. Such a patient sheep! (Wearing a costume and everything) Our c...