This weekend was the coming together and presentation of the Children's Christmas service. Steve has been wanting to get the Sunday School to put together the story "Christmas in Exeter Street" for few years now. This year we were asked to do the Christmas kids service because Kaila is due to have a baby any day now. So Steve jumped at the chance. The story is about a family in England getting ready for Christmas. The Grandparents arrive and bring a Christmas tree, cranberry jelly, cats etc. The Ministers roof blows off and they arrive on the doorstep and bring a carol. The children's friends arrive with sleeping bags and stockings etc, etc. There are neighbours, fat men, wives and children, Uncles not seen for years, friends and a cat. The Sunday School has been low in numbers this year so he co opted a few adults for parts. As there are many parts. In the beginning we thought we weren't going to have enough people, but as the time went on it was a bit like the house in Exeter Street, they kept on coming and in the end there were lots of car children and the minister ended up with 6 children instead of 3. Saturday was spent getting the set together. This included moving our house to the Church...well part of it anyway. Some photos to show you how it looked...
Saturday afternoon we had to have a rehearsal and I thought it was so chaotic and was worried that it wasn't going to come together. I was the lead role and was so flustered. It also didn't help that Isaac was difficult. Sunday morning and it all came together really well. The prayers helped, trust in the Lord. Everyone thought it was a great service and an awesome message. The kids enjoyed themselves and hopefully we will see them all back in the New Year!
Isaac is not coping with all the routines being changed with everything that comes with the Christmas lead up and end of school year. For 2 weekends he has missed day time sleeps and had late nights and now we are paying for the fun. Last night the time came where I had to be tough. He has been waking at 3am for a couple of weeks now. He doesn't just wake, he is WIDE awake and doesn't ant to go back to sleep. So last night I had to do the controlled crying. He really did not like me not talking to him and just taking him by the hand and putting him back to bed. It probably only took 30 mins, but it felt like hours. And today it feels like I didn't get any sleep last night. Hopefully tonight he does well, especially because Steve is not here tonight!
Yesterday I finally got to make my house feel a little more like Christmas. Our tree is very eclectic this year! Every single decoration has meaning and I wanted them all on the tree. Tobyn put most of them on and it looks pretty crazy, but I loved it and this is what Christmas with kids is meant to look like in my mind.
And Steve thought he would get a photo of me by the tree, YEAH RIGHT!
I have been working on Christmas gifts. I have to finish the calender for the in-laws this week. I have 5 more months to do, well actually Steve has to do one of those, LOL. We are going down to Paraparaumu for Steve's nephews b'day on Sunday and we want to take all the prezzies with us. We won't be seeing them again until after Christmas.
A couple of cute things Isaac said over the past few days...
When seeing a security guard wearing a hat, outside a bank..."There's a pirate" and he couldn't stop looking at him. I told the security guard what he said and he laughed.
On listening to the beautiful chorus of birds, "birds singing" then we heard a chicken...book, book, book, boooookuk.....Isaac said "a monkey"
Have great week everyone, ciao for now
6 comments:
It looks and sounds as though the Christmas play was wonderful! Well done to you & Steve for pulling it off. Glad things went well on the morning - and yes, it's definitely good to trust the Lord to bring it all together on the day. I'm not surprised that you are tired though! Kids can be so difficult to get to sleep when they are off their normal routines, but I'm sure Isaac will be sleeping well again soon.
The Sunday School production sounds and looks great. Thanks for your comments about David on my blog and I hope that Issac starts sleeping okay again. Unfortunatly unless it has been by chance in the car we haven't had an afternoon sleep for nearly 3 -4 weeks. Not that he doesn't need one!
I think it's tradition that the Sunday School play rehearsal is chaos but it always comes together on the day - God is good like that! Funny about having to move your whole house down to church for the set. Hope you get a better sleep tonight - be strong my friend.:o)
Sounds like everyone had a great time with the sunday school play, looks fab too.
Hope the sleeping with Isaac is going betterand hope the controlled crying isn't too rough on you. Best of luck for good night sleeps all around!
Now I think think that your play sounded awesome and well done to you and Steve for putting it together and taking half your house down to the church! I hope that Isaac has been sleeping for you this week. I don't know why you're hiding behind your tree because you are very pretty
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