Children at Christmas for CCC!

Hello Everyone, I hope all is well and a good weekend is happening for you.

Well, I was almost not here with this post as I thought it was next Sunday, that's pretty poor as I'm the hostess this time around, and if it hadn't been for Christine showing her card, I would have missed the date.

Anyway, as it's a theme of my choosing I thought I'd go with Children at Christmas, of course you can opt for Anything Goes, if that's better for you, here are my cards;

An upcycled card and added to navy card and an embossed background, the sentiment is one of my freebies. I thought this card was too lovely to toss, glad I kept it as it's perfect for the challenge as children make snowmen at Christmas.....if there is snow.

And of course children post their letters to Santa, although they could always be posting to their friends or favourite Auntie or Gran.   LOTV Art Pad topper for this one, with lots of added sparkle. Post box, robins and sentiment are all from Little Claire and coloured with Derwent Coloursoft Pencil.

Now something else that Children do at Christmas is the Nativity Play, I'm sure we've all been to one at some time or other. LOTV Art Pad again , paper is an old pad from LOTV too. Sentiment is another freebie, a little bow and gems.

I have a fabulous story and memory of a Nativity Play at my church many decades ago when I was in the church choir. The little ones had been practicing for ages and were good to go, the play was taking place in the church, and lovely scenery had been made and the children had brilliant costumes, much work having been put into them by mum, grannies, teachers, whoever. The little girl who was the Narrator was word perfect and I wouldn't be surprised if she went on to The Royal Shakespeare Company in later life. 
Anyway, the play got going with the Shepherds and Angels and the Wise Men, all so good and then we had the Inn Keeper, leaning out of his inn door and blowing the most huge bubbles with his bubblegum, and it going all over his face. There was some sotto  voce sounds coming from off the stage from a teacher, of course the Inn Keeper was ignoring her..as you do.
Then we had Mary and Joseph coming in looking for a place to stay, poor Mary was looking so tired and weary, and upon Joseph asking if there was any room at the inn and getting the response "there's nay room here, yes'll hevtogo to Edinburgh,"  We were in Musselburgh at the time, Mary, turned to Joseph and lassoed him with the set of rosary beads that she had been swinging as she walked on. The action was as good as any cowboy out on the range, and all this time shouting at poor Joseph " I telt ye te book earlier we would'ne get a room, yer nothin but a numpty. Well, poor Joseph was getting choked by this time as Mary was twisting the beads. Thankfully the teacher ran in and sorted out the situation, taking the bead away, but Mary was having none of it and punched Joseph in the face, whereupon he let out the biggest wail ever and started crying. Of course the whole play had to be abandoned. I have to say it's the best Nativity Play I'd ever been to lol.

Children are marvellous really, you just never know what's coming, and a rosary swinging Mary was was amazing, I believe she got a good spanking....these are the days when spanking still happened, but the memory of it all still entertains me to this day. I've often wondered what became of her, was she a psychopath in the making, her language was certainly I would say home learned, but who knows. But, what daft parent or teacher allowed her to have the rosary beads  as part of her costume has to take some of the blame. It was a pity the other children didn't get to shine in their roles, but there was cake, ice cream and jelly in the hall afterwards, so not all bad, and the grown ups fell about laughing at it all.

So I hope you enjoyed my story and I've not bored you with it, and if you've kept reading you understand my attempt at the vernacular  of Musselburgh dialect.

Please make sure you comment on my team mates cards, they are always fabulous, and thank you for the lovely comments on my last card, that's me for now, scheduling this post for tomorrow,