Nativity Scene - - - Gingerbread Style!

Christmas is right around the corner. I know we haven’t had Halloween yet! Halloween is a short few weeks away… ok, short for me because Andy works two jobs, is the youth director (when the kids show) Lizzy has playdates lined up every Saturday, we have Disney on Ice the 22^nd, Trunk or Treat the 29^th, Halloween the 31^st, Thanksgiving shortly after at my in-laws, a Christmas play to get ready for, finish Christmas shopping for Andy and Lizzy. Lizzys would have been done a while ago if she would have quit finding what I had purchased for her… Is this what the holidays have become though? One task after another? And look at the world right now. Up-rise against Christianity in our backyards and abroad.  Life is hectic at the small level and the large level.

What I want to do is to bring it down a notch. St Michaels is having a Gingerbread house contest, and I’m going to enter it.  Thanks to Jenny Crosby who loaning me her “He was one of us” by Rien Poortvliet, which has beautiful art that really depicts the nativity scene, not the commercialized one you always see. I was shocked to see that it is similar to what I have flown over on numerous occasions to get to Forward Operating Bases in Iraq.  Not much has changed over there I suppose. Yes, I know the nativity scene is in Bethlehem, but it seems the architecture hasn’t changed much. Anyway I digress… I want to use this picture to make my gingerbread house.  I will be posting my “progress” in hope to get some of your inputs. Maybe you have an idea of what the roof should be made of? How to make the donkey? Etc.