Beth Marie was an angel in that program by the way, and I happen to have found a picture:
She's the little angel on the right...does that melt your heart or what?
Well, years have passed, and we no longer attend the little church in the Zumbro Valley.
The Christmas costumes found their way into a Rubbermaid bin on a shelf in the garage...
Honestly, I thought of giving them away for scrap fabric because seeing that bin made me a little sad for days gone by and I figured there wouldn't be a reason to use them again.
Until this last summer when Elizabeth asked if she could take them out and play with them. Well, I must admit, I wasn't thrilled with the idea at first. All I could think was it was gonna be a big mess and what could she want with a bunch of old Christmas costumes? But I reluctantly agreed, and I'm glad I did. She spent many a summer afternoon running around the yard in Bible costumes. And many of the neighbor children were thrilled to join her--who knew Bible costumes would be such a hit? She even enticed Mike and I to join her on occasion. One night we drove around the neighborhood on my dad's golf cart all dressed in Bible garb. (Sorry...I don't have a picture... I know. How rude of me to tell a story like that without a picture...)
Well, I was pleased that my old Christmas costumes weren't going to waste.
But when the Berean Christmas program rolled around, guess what? They were short on Christmas costumes... And the old costumes came out of the bin once again to serve the purpose for which they were created. And now, my little stash of Christmas costumes will live on as I look back fondly on my video of all of the pictures on the farm that day in Lake City...and I won't be sad anymore when I look at that bin on the shelf in the garage.
I thought that was pretty special.
The Christmas costumes found their way into a Rubbermaid bin on a shelf in the garage...
Honestly, I thought of giving them away for scrap fabric because seeing that bin made me a little sad for days gone by and I figured there wouldn't be a reason to use them again.
Until this last summer when Elizabeth asked if she could take them out and play with them. Well, I must admit, I wasn't thrilled with the idea at first. All I could think was it was gonna be a big mess and what could she want with a bunch of old Christmas costumes? But I reluctantly agreed, and I'm glad I did. She spent many a summer afternoon running around the yard in Bible costumes. And many of the neighbor children were thrilled to join her--who knew Bible costumes would be such a hit? She even enticed Mike and I to join her on occasion. One night we drove around the neighborhood on my dad's golf cart all dressed in Bible garb. (Sorry...I don't have a picture... I know. How rude of me to tell a story like that without a picture...)
Well, I was pleased that my old Christmas costumes weren't going to waste.
But when the Berean Christmas program rolled around, guess what? They were short on Christmas costumes... And the old costumes came out of the bin once again to serve the purpose for which they were created. And now, my little stash of Christmas costumes will live on as I look back fondly on my video of all of the pictures on the farm that day in Lake City...and I won't be sad anymore when I look at that bin on the shelf in the garage.
I thought that was pretty special.
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