Church Christmas Activities

Christmas is always such a busy time, and many of our annual activities are tied in to our church.  One of the first things that we did in this Christmas season was to help decorate the sanctuary.  I helped with the hanging of the greens, and the kids assisted with the Chrismon tree.  The whole church looked so beautiful.

The kids' Blast program has a monthly service project.  During the month of December, they collected canned food items to donate to the food bank.  They stacked the collected products so that they made the shape of a Christmas Tree. 

One of the most time-consuming activities was preparing for the annual children's Christmas program.  Each year the children sing various Christmas carols.  After singing these carols for several years, I can say that my kids know all of the standards well.  Both kids had a solo this year.  Olivia did a verse of "I'm Getting Nothing for Christmas" and Owen had a verse of "We Three Kings".  All of the kids did well.

 As usual, Santa made an appearance following the program.  I don't think that we have many "Santa" years left.  After we left the church this year, the kids said, "Mama, I think Santa was Mr. Bill".  It was.

In other church Christmas news, I attended my small group Christmas party.  I usually don't attend Christmas parties, but this was fun.  We drove over to Saint Simon's and had dinner at Crabdaddy's .  A great time was had by all.

 In other Christmas party news, the kids were invited to the annual Christmas party given by their Blast teacher.  It was great fun and included watching Christmas classics on an outdoor movie screen and a snowball fight (with fake snowballs, obviously).  Things got real when the moms took on the kids.  It was an epic battle.

We love our church family, and were happy to be able to participate in so many events with them during the holiday season.