Today marks Epiphany, the feast celebrating the Wise men's visit to Jesus. The kidlets are excited because the final three gifts under the Christmas tree can be opened today. We always save three gifts from Christmas day until Epiphany to represent the three gifts given to Jesus by the Magi. We also start taking down our Christmas tree and decorations. Do you have any special holiday traditions?
Friday night was the kick-off for a three-day Epiphany elebration at our church. Each religious education class performed a part of the Nativity story. The show had all those funny moments you hear about with Christmas pageants with kids' forgetting their lines, Mary not coming out when the angel appeared, out of order scenes and singing so quietly no one could hear them. "It's a lot like herding cats," our priest said when talking about putting on a show with a bunch of kids.
The oldest kidlet's class performed the Annunciation. The middle kidlet's class put on the Nativity scene. He got to be Joseph and was so excited. He wore a cool costume, though I must admit his headband was more reminiscent of Mike Reno, lead singer of Loverboy, than a carpenter from Nazareth. Still he looked really cute. The youngest was too little to participate, but she got lots of attention because of her black eye.
As for the book, I wrote but I'm not posting tallies on weekends. I left my characters in Johannesburg, South Africa. I can't wait to get them to Cape Town. Things are heating up, though neither wants to think of the other as anything but their teammate! It's going to be so much fun to write.
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