Nativity 2006?

I am the "stage manager" for our school's Christmas program. While the 5/6 choir sings, Grade 4 students are acting out the Nativity. At our run through in the gym we weren't using the costumes or props but I grabbed a doll from the kindergarten room for the baby Jesus.
I handed it to 'Mary', who said, "What's this?"
"Aren't you Mary?, " I replied, "Wouldn't you hold the baby?"
"Why can't my husband do it?" she said, looking quite put out!


Thought I had to share that.

Not in the Christmas mode yet.

Oliver is four weeks today. Time goes really fast when you are thinking about a new baby.

And it is only a little over two weeks till Christmas. I haven't done anything except hang up two wreaths and buy Oliver his present when we were in BC. He probably won't care! No baking, no shopping, no tree, no decorating. I don't think I am Scroogish - there have just been other things to do. Maybe this weekend I'll get a lot of this done.

Day Off

Tomorrow is my day off. The day I have off varies from week to week so it doesn't fall into a regular pattern. I always really enjoy the night before a day off. It feels a bit like a holiday - I can stay up a little bit later, read an extra chapter in a book. I don't have to think about what to wear in the morning or what to pack for lunch. And I can look forward to a great morning - reading the paper cover to cover while drinking a good cup of coffee. Then I will have time to do the Daily New York Times Crossword. Wednesday and Thursday have really good puzzles, Friday is just too hard. I am in relaxation mode alreday.

Tomorrow I have to do several errands but the most fun one will be to go to Don's Photo and get prints of the pictures we took of Oliver. He is two weeks older already and changing I am sure but it will still be nice to put a picture of him on my desk at school. I want to make a nice print of one of Scott and Margaret - we don't have a good couple picture of them. The only one we took in BC has me in it too. But it will have to do for now.

I may even do some Christmas shopping...........

It looks like Christmas

Its snowing again - that's the third slippery driving snowfall for me in one week - one scarey one in BC and two regular winter snowfalls for MB. It looks so beautiful, though. All the trees are covered in snow, outside Christmas lights are one and it looks like a Christmas card. I like it. At the grocery store, the people in line a few days ago were complaining about the snow and cold (This was MB, of course) and I couldn't get into the mood. I LOVE snow in December. Its the snow in April I complain about!

Its report card time at school right now and the photocopier/printer quit. No on could print their report cards and the repairman can't come until Monday - the day the reports are supposed to be handed out. Why is it that technology which makes things easier also seems to make things so difficult for us? If we had hand written reports, no one would mind that the printer didn't work - but they'd have really tired hands. Hmmm.