Funniest. Christmas. EVER!

[free]

At a church I pastored in PA we had a Christmas play one year which involved the manger scene...The stage had a small office on one side from which the director gave the actors their lines if they needed them.

This particular year they decided to use a "real" baby in the play...She was a beautiful newborn but I knew it was probably going to be a disaster. During the program she began to cry and cry and cry...Slowly Mary reached down and picked up "Jesus" and handed her to the director in the office...Of course everyone followed the crying baby.

In one fluid motion the play director took the crying baby and then immediately we saw the traditional catatonic Jesus that we always used being passed by his leg to Mary who very gently placed him in the manger.

It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen in my life and people still talk about it to this day...Almost 20 years later.

[Jennifer Smith]

A friend bought a pink tree last year- she was so happy with it! Whatever floats your boat.


Our tree is green with white lights and silver and white ornaments. This is funny: ten-year-old son said I was "vain" because I didn't put on the old, homemade ornaments this year. ? But we have a color scheme! He's almost eleven, can deal with the fact that I didn't use his "baby's first christmas ornament" am I right?

Only if your a "YUPPIE."

Personally, Christmas to me is a "family thing," not an exercise in interior decorating. Stick with the family ornaments that have a story behind each and every one.


TW

That is one part of it, but we all helped decorate this tree and he was the only mild dissenter... We had a "homespun" tree last year and made gingerbread ornaments and the whole nine yards... and all the kids' ornaments (some of which are looking pretty tired!) were on the tree. We're all pretty happy with the tree this year- it looks like snow and it is beautiful!

This is when you find a free tree on Craigslist and set it up in another room with the old stuff on it.

I had offered to but he wasn't too interested! I don't think he really cares all that much. We will have those ornaments out again in the future though, I'm sure.

[Pastor Bill]

OK this one's on me.

I held on to my belief in Santa much later than most kids, and every year my brother and his children would come up for the holidays. My nieces (3 and 5 years younger than me) also believed in Santa of course as they were still fairly young, but at least both walking and talking.

My Sister in Law really wanted to get back to KY and be with her family, and so they decided to leave Christmas Eve so they could be back for Christmas day. Of course this threw a real kink in Santa's plans. Mom sent us all off to bed early saying that Debbie was on the phone with the North Pole seeing if we could be the first stop so they could get on the road and get home (she was actually calling her Mom to let them know they were coming). meanwhile my other brother was next door donning a Santa Suit.

Mom comes in a few minutes later and says come in here and see who's here! she tells us to be very quiet, and we sneak up the hall way, as the girls stand in amazement at catching Santa placing gifts under the tree, I run and dive back in bed. Mom comes down to my room to find me with my head under the covers saying "I'm asleep, I'm asleep, I'm asleep..."

I was taking no chances, years of being told that if Santa caught me awake I might not get anything had really stuck!