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This past Friday my friend Shelley and I took the girls to the Festival of Trees. Taylor was performing with her school's Grade 9 band so we watched her and then explored the festival.
Shelley was showing Saoirse a set of small statues of Mary, Joseph and the newborn Jesus. She says to Saoirse "Joseph was Jesus' daddy" and Saoirse says "Actually, he was Jesus' stepdad." This made us laugh quite loudly. As I have said many times before we are not very religious. In fact Saoirse has been to church a grand total of once...at her baptism. I know, it is awful. Since she has started Kindergarten she has really embraced the whole religion aspect of school. She loves the prayers, the songs, the stories. Almost every day she brings up God (as an example today she and Sophie were arguing and I asked if they realized who was watching them. It's December and I play the Santa card an awful lot. She replies "God?") Anyway, I am assuming that in school they were told something along the lines of God being the father of Jesus but that he was raised by Joseph. Since we have the same sort of thing in our own family (without the whole immaculate conception deal) I'm guessing she just took it to mean that Jesus has a stepdad, just like Liam and Taylor do.
(Jesus, Mary and the stepdad)
We had a great time at the Festival of Trees and I will be sure to pull the girls out of school on the last Friday of every November so that we can enjoy ourselves without the mad rush of people on the weekend!
A Stampin' Up tree. Seriously! I was in envy.
The Festival of Trees is a fundraiser for our local childrens hospital, the Stollery. They had an area where you could mask up, operate on a teddy bear, see a doll in an incubator, get a cast on your finger and so on and so on. The girls loved it.
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Taylor, Sophie, Shelley and Saoirse.
A gingerbread castle. I believe this one won the award in the non professional category.
There are more pictures on facebook of course. Or there will be once I post them.
01 December, 2009
Family Dynamics
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6 comments:
Good on 'ya posting! And a Christmas one too!
We are in the same boat - not pushing religion too much at home... them getting a lot through school. Having said that Mac went to mass Sunday and his only question for the Priest at the end was 'why are there no donuts this week?'
Mmmm.
Hope your ornament gets there soon.
can't believe how big the girls are getting!!
woo hoo - she lives!!!
xx Boliath xx
I love that she's interested in God, Emma. If you think about it, it's all very interesting and probably something we should all give more thought.
-Chas
So glad to see you've posted!! Love seeing the photos! Happy ... erm holidays to you and yours!!
Are you back for good, or is this some sort of Christmas tease?!
Looks like a lot of fun and I highly recommend going on days when there is school and avoiding the crowds. And the kids learn things too, so it isn't like they are missing out on learning ;-) .
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