"Mary" Christmas

We talk a lot about what Christmas is about in our home and we read the story of Jesus' birth over and over again, as I'm sure many of you do to. Maggie loves this story and we are so glad that she does, because we love it to. We love that our great God took on the form of a helpless baby and lived the life we fail to live on our behalf. So, we'll probably continue to read it over and over again, make that a definitely. And, we pray that our children will grow to love it in ways they can't even understand yet. But for now we play pretend. Oh how we love to play pretend in our home. We've found that this has become one of Maggie's favorite games to play with Daddy when he gets home from work. At least once a night Tyler plays the role of Donkey and Maggie takes the Mary lead. Every now and then Maggie appoints Henry to the part of Joseph or a shepherd. He does a spectacular job. They both do really.