The Colorado Adventure

Today we pulled out the tree and set it up. After we pulled the tree out of the box, 2 brown things tumbled to the carpet. Hannah, of course, picked them up and said, ‘What’s this?‘ I was about to take them from her and I screeched, which made her drop the 2 mummified baby mice. It’s just like the Christmas poem, ‘not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.’ I know mama mice have more than 2 at a time…so I’m wondering if there are any more dead mice in the garage. (Side note: no, I did not take the mice and show them to the kids, or do a science lesson on mummification, I just wasn’t into it – but I know that as a good HS’ing mom I should have placed said mice in a baggie for later examination.) The kids scrambled around the tree like the Peanuts characters and after the dust settled, it looked like Charlie Brown’s tree. They think that every scrap of decoration needs to be on the bottom limbs, but they had fun.

We had a good relaxing day, I even took a nap. Maybe that will charge me up for the rest of the week (M-dance, CAP, TNO, T-zoo lights, W-park day, jump street, TH-GS leader meeting, night at Bethlehem, F-volunteer, storytime, girls scouts, DDC party, SA-Frisco wassail days; plus school stuff.)

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Ornaments from yesterday (trees and a dove.)

Sunday, Nov. 29
“The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.”
Genesis 3:6-7

The Jesse Tree symbol for this reading is an apple, representing original sin. Christ is called the “second” or “new” Adam because he ushered in a new creation, forgiving sin and restoring humanity to God’s grace. The whole story of Adam and Eve can be found in Genesis
2:4-3:24.

Ornaments from today.

At church today we talked about generosity. Is your generosity so contagious that you infect others? Unlike swine flu, being generous is something we should all be looking to catch. In being generous we reflect a characteristic of God – His generous nature. After all, He gave us this whole earth, He made it all for us and then just gave it to us. Thanksgiving was a time for reflection upon ourselves, what are we thankful for in our lives that has happened this year. Now we look to Christmas and we can choose many paths. We can be selfish and greedy, only thinking of ourselves and what we want. We can ignore everything around us and even berate ourselves, or we can choose to look forward to Christmas day and be generous in our time, talent and treasures. I choose the latter. Each day as we read 1 more part of the Jesse tree/Advent story we add to the excitement. As the days pass we will be finding ways to be generous (like our girl scout coat drive this Friday.) Maybe we can be generous with our time, spending more of it with family. Maybe we can be more generous with our treasure, giving to people in need. Even if we don’t have anything physical to give, we can always give our prayers.

So, this week choose to be generous; remember that you’re are blessed to be a blessing.

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