The hunt for a nativity.
This will be my 3rd year of "married" Christmas. On my first year of Christmas I decided that being a married woman constituted a need for a nativity. I mean you just can't own a house and not have a nativity for Christmas. So I began my quest to purchase just the right one.
Unfortunately that was not as easy as you might think. Due to the fact that I am incredibly picky and I planned to purchase one that I could continue to use for the next 20 or 30 years. :)
1. I didn't want one with a blond hair blue eyed Jesus. (Sorry Jesus was a hebrew child born 2,000 years ago in the middle east. I guarantee you he looked nothing like 90% of the nativities you see here in the US)
2. I wanted it appropriately proportioned. (Jesus does not need to be the size of Mary, I don't know why this seems like an unreasonable request)
3. I am not independently wealthy so it needed to be reasonably priced.
After two years of hunting I of course was frustrated this year beginning the search yet again.
I had promised to decorate a table for our church Christmas Banquet so I was determined this year to find one before that deadline. After looking at several stores I made a last ditch effort the night before I had to decorate the table and I FOUND THE PERFECT ONE!!! While they have lighter skin than I would like, they are not blond haired and there are no facial features so it's more generic. The colors are lovely and it even came with a Wood Charger to place the set on. Hopefully I'll post a picture soon but I just had to share.
Jesus is obviously the reason for Christmas and now I feel like I will be able to appropriately show that.