On Sunday, we lit the Bethlehem candle before dinner. The fruit read the verses for the day (with F2 and F4 repeating after me as I read, and F1 and F3 reading it aloud themselves) and then we lit the candle. We discussed the humble birth of our Lord, the fact that the Wise Men actually showed up when Jesus was a bit older, and what frankincense and myrrh are and what they were used for. I have a sermon on tape from our former pastor about the Gifts of Christmas, where he explains quite a bit about why the Wise Men gave the baby Jesus those particular items…I’ll have to get it out and perhaps we’ll listen to it during the rest of the week. It may add some dimension to what we’ve already discussed.
Monday was Christmas Music Day. I had loosely planned to do more with it, but in the end, we simply looked up F3’s favorite Christmas hymn (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) online at Cyber Hymnal and at this article on Suite 101. We sang the song as it is now known, and tried to sing it as Charles Wesley first wrote it. I’m not sure if it our less-than-good ability to keep in tune or if the original words cannot fit the tune by Mendelssohn, but it wasn’t pretty and we stopped after just a short while. Then we looked up F1’s favorite Christmas Hymn, Angels We Have Heard on High, and massacred sang it with gusto.
Today was Christmas Card Day. I filled out our Christmas cards, picked up the prints from Walmart Photo Center, and addressed like a crazy woman all day long. I gave each one of the fruit five cards to fill out for whomever they wanted to send cards, but I still need to address those cards. Some people on our list are going to get about six cards or so from us! I guess they’ll know they’re loved this Christmas season, anyway.
Leave a comment