For the first time at our house, we have a fire place that works! Since we have lived here (6 years) we have not had our fire place finished. But this year, we have a hearth and a firebox door! As you can see we still need to put the stone on the face of the fireplace, but we can burn in it now. A never before seen phenomenon....


Casualties of Christmas...The Nativity. Mary lost her fingers, the shepherd lost the back of his robe...

At one point Joseph broke his staff, but now is repaired and the wise man also lost some fingers...

The shepherd also lost some hair and some toes and shoe....

And the poor palm tree at one point did not have any of its top frawns...

Lilly and Judah could not keep their hands off the set, although I did buy it for them last year. So now the mantle has become the home for the set this Christmas. Thank the Lord that the precious gift of Jesus was not broken as an accident or repaired by superglue. He fulfilled the purpose of His coming, to be broken in death and to be restored in resurrection....