My first holiday plan cruncher came when Shannon found her wrapped gift Lauren had picked out and wrapped and "hid" behind the tree. Shannon threw off the paper in a flash while waving her new slippers for all to see..... not what I had planned or envisioned for this special gift.
In addition to this today started out as a typical day until we noticed baby Jesus was missing from the fisher price nativity set. Just a few days before the girls were putting all sorts of things in little mini Chrismtas gift bags while I was busy finishing up Shannon's baby book so when I asked Lauren where baby Jesus was, she said he was in one of those bags...not good news when I could recall throwing those bags away yesterday so I did what every mom does when a precious treasure gets thrown away...... I went through the garbage can :) So after 20 minutes of house and trash searching I found myself getting desperate thinking what would we do without baby Jesus on Christmas and how could I have lost the most important piece to our nativty set? Panic set in as I questioned each of my girls (more like badgered) until alas...there he sat where I had left him after rescuing him from the bag the night before, on Shannnon's dresser. :) At one point I even prayed out to God to help me find...well, Jesus.... oh what holiday stress can do to a person :) Needless to say I started thinking of what we could have done if we didn't find him (there was the doll house baby and bassinet etc) then realized that the nativity was not the focal point but our Savior. Not the tree, meal preperations etc....I was starting to miss the point, yet again, of the season...to anticipate celebrating our Savior's birth and spend QUALITY time with family. So this year I am going to write myself notes in all sorts of places to remind myself to stop "Be Still" and B-R-E-A-T-H-E~take in the joy of the season and the gifts God has already given us :)
In addition to this today started out as a typical day until we noticed baby Jesus was missing from the fisher price nativity set. Just a few days before the girls were putting all sorts of things in little mini Chrismtas gift bags while I was busy finishing up Shannon's baby book so when I asked Lauren where baby Jesus was, she said he was in one of those bags...not good news when I could recall throwing those bags away yesterday so I did what every mom does when a precious treasure gets thrown away...... I went through the garbage can :) So after 20 minutes of house and trash searching I found myself getting desperate thinking what would we do without baby Jesus on Christmas and how could I have lost the most important piece to our nativty set? Panic set in as I questioned each of my girls (more like badgered) until alas...there he sat where I had left him after rescuing him from the bag the night before, on Shannnon's dresser. :) At one point I even prayed out to God to help me find...well, Jesus.... oh what holiday stress can do to a person :) Needless to say I started thinking of what we could have done if we didn't find him (there was the doll house baby and bassinet etc) then realized that the nativity was not the focal point but our Savior. Not the tree, meal preperations etc....I was starting to miss the point, yet again, of the season...to anticipate celebrating our Savior's birth and spend QUALITY time with family. So this year I am going to write myself notes in all sorts of places to remind myself to stop "Be Still" and B-R-E-A-T-H-E~take in the joy of the season and the gifts God has already given us :)
2 comments:
OH dear....that is too funny, I am glad that it wasn't my day! Thanks for the reminder of the Christmas holidays. It was great to hear from ya.
Merry Christmas!
Don't you just love how those little surprises happen at the most opportune time! Kuddos to you for taking a step back and focusing on what's important. Can't wait to hear about your Christmas day!
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