Sonya: Now, I know you do some beautiful decorating. Laura: And that’s a good, gentle touch to add to that atmosphere of the home: the focus of the season. So we display a different picture from a different artist each week, but we focus on the nativity scene and the reason for the Christmas season in that way. It still has pictures from master artists, but it just goes through chronologically. We take a break from studying one particular artist during the month of December, and I have a book of the Life of Christ. Sonya: Another thing that we have enjoyed is the artwork. I have three girls, and fortunately my son doesn’t mind being in the plays as well but during that time of year doing that particular dramatization is part of our home as well. That made our Christmas time very special. So they did the presentation in many kinds of ways, but in a way they were narrating. As they got older, that morphed into their making a movie of it, and then we would show the movie. I remember my third daughter wasn’t very tall, wasn’t very big, because they put wings on her to be an angel and I remember her standing on the kitchen counter, saying her little piece. And then that morphed into their doing it themselves. That was getting pretty elaborate: they had a King Herod and the whole bit. And then that morphed into doing it with their stuffed animals. We have a little nativity set-I tried to get one that was family friendly, that the kids could actually play with and handle-and so they would act it out and tell the story. Sonya: Some things that we have always enjoyed is having the children narrate the Christmas story from Luke 2.
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