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Silent Monks Sing
Merry Christmas! Here’s an appropriate video that hopefully will bring laughter and joy in the spirit of the season and Kick Start your weekend. Check Monday’s upcoming post for a few more scenes from the blizzard that hit us early last week and stranded my son in the Nashville airport. Surprisingly, my husband was able to make it back from Copenhagen. I later learned that they were only allowing international flights to land. My older son will be back by the time of this post and fortunately we’ll have our family together for Christmas. That’s a very good gift right there. As I was clearing out stuff I ran across…
Christmas Creche
The nativity scene is a way to visually recall the Christmas story and why we celebrate Christmas afterall. I thought this one was unusually interesting in that it is carved out of one piece of wood. Clicking on this link gives you a little history behind the Nativity scene. This was another interesting Old World Style one: We usually put one up every year and like its meaningful message lends simple pleasure to our Christmas decor. Ours is made of terracotta and in the style of South American Santos figurines. It was given to us by my father-in-law, who is an Episcopal priest. Back in the day, when I had…
Ice, Ice Baby & Balloon me
These are just a few fun and interesting, newsworthy things worth mentioning. The National Harbor is celebrating the holidays with Christmas on the Potomac with Ice, quite literally. Click here to review the details and link to the video of this winter wonderland, made entirely of ice, complete with an ice slide. It was written up in the Washington Post as well. Not as elaborate as other ice sculpture posts that I’ve written about, and although a bit cheesy, it could be fun. National Harbor is, however, pretty dramatic, as I’ve been there a couple of times but not in the bitter cold months (previous posts). With my older boys…
