Chat with Deb—Advent Calendar Time!
Why are the nuns bringing sewing kits to the stable?
Deb got a reusable Advent calendar from her parents years ago. It has figures and objects from the Nativity, hand-cut and hand-painted. It finishes the day before Christmas, so besides providing an Advent countdown it also is a Nativity on Christmas. All neat, proper, and respectful.
And then I came into the family.
ME: <adding item #24> There! The space visitor with the baby in the disposable diaper goes next to the guy in the space helmet.
DEB: <sighing> Yes, dear.
ME: Now we know where the guys with the Christmas presents are going. We know that they have Christmas presents because they have Christmas wrapping.
DEB: Three kings, honey. They have crowns.
ME: And they can see the poor confused pigs in the Jewish stable.