Nativity

We had a lovely nativity this morning although the audience was rather depleted because of the snow. Some really cute little angels. J did very well with his narrating. Bit of a panic afterwards when 4 year old 'Mary' went missing & her mum started freaking out (which I can totally understand). Turned out she was playing hide & seek under a pew. The evening candle-light carol service was cancelled, it's the first time I ever remember that happening. It's difficult when it's icy as our church car park is on a steep slope so people almost need crampons to get from their cars to the door.

We had Mavis the old lady we take to church round for lunch (& had Christmas pudding). In the evening we decided to go to 'other church' for their carol service & Mavis said she'd like to come too. We warned her it might be very lively as she doesn't like loud music & it was but ever so good. They had this brilliant video which was like the nativity on facebook - messages between Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth & family & friends etc There was this bit where one of Joseph's friends said 'You made Mary pregnant?' & he said 'An angel appeared to me in a dream & said it was God' & the friend said 'How convenient' then it said '23 people defriend Joseph'. It was just really funny but it ended up with 'What are you going to call the baby?' & then someone was typing in in big letters 'He shall be called Jesus' which was quite moving somehow.

To our surprise Mavis sang along to the carols, ate 4 mince pies, found someone to chat to & said she enjoyed it. Wonder if she would enjoy their normal service which is even noisier. She could do with enjoying church again.

Just spoke to my brother on the phone, he arrived back home safely at 2 am.

On with the Christmas preparations.