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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Merry Christmas!
Christmas for all things Oklahoma Pastry Cloth™ is up and running and I absolutely love the time of year! I would just like to take this time to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and to thank everyone for making this year so successful and exciting.
Sorry that this photo is so fuzzy. After fifty million pictures of the tree that were blurry and because all of a sudden everything in the screen appeared in Japanese, I realized that my camera was dying a low battery death.
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Our days of cutting down a tree and bringing it to the house are over. We have to be satisfied with a fake. Poor hubby’s allergies can’t handle the real thing.
Our kitty, Callie, thinks it’s a real tree and that tree skirt she’s lying on is really a forest bed of pine needles. The star ornament is from my childhood trees. It’s plastic!!!
This year’s theme is ‘silver and pearls’. Silver bows, silver pine cones, silver balls are all mixed in with our traditional ornaments. “Turn your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding and if you look for it as for SILVER and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord.” Proverbs 2:2-5 and “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine PEARLS. when he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” Mathew 13:45-46
We have a choo-choo train, that really blows smoke, chugging around the tree. I love the sound of the whistle. The cat hates it and the dog doesn’t really know what to think. Notice all of the plastic ornaments on the bottom row? They are also from my childhood. I put them on the bottom just in case the cat decides that they are acrobat rats hanging by their tales! I have a feeling that’s why my parents had plastic ornaments too. Four kids and glass Christmas ornaments make for a sure disaster.
The nutcrackers stand guard over the front entrance. I watched the Nutcracker Suite last night and I’m waiting for one of these little guys to salute me!
The garlands and poinsettas are placed in strategic locations.
My favorite part of decorating for Chistmas is setting out the Nativity scenes. I just feel a certain connection as if I am holding a photograph of a moment in time.
I have been very disheartened at what I have discovered in our stores. Most are not stocking Nativity Scenes anymore. I was trying to find one to replace a relative’s broken one and asked at the usual places. Not one place had a single set and the clerks really didn’t seem too worried about it.
Christmas is about the Nativity, but it is so much more than that. For Christians, it is a time of celebration and amazement because God came down and dwelt among men and showed His authority and His ability to provide for us. This nation has honored that belief for a long time. Please, let’s not take the Christ out of Christmas.
Have A Very, Merry Christmas!
MB
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