This has been a crazy Christmas season here at the Parker house. I kicked it off doing something I’ve never done before…I went shopping on black Friday. I’ll never do that again. Though I got a sweet deal on a LCD TV, the whole experience put a bad taste in my mouth. People were crazy, pushing and shoving, yelling, fighting. Where was the Christmas spirit? I got home and decided I wanted this month to be more than just buying presents and finding the best deals. My wife and I picked a family we know that was having a hard time this year and we decided to be Secret Santas and sneakily leave something on their doorstep during the last 12 days of Christmas. We got our kids and neighbors involved too. That, more than anything, helped to change the feeling of Christmas for me this year.
On top of doing all that we had a baby on the 6th. Then we had relatives over to help and to hang out. In the middle of all this my computer fried and I had to get a new motherboard, RAM, and power source. Luckily it was all under warranty and I didn’t have to pay for anything. But still, no computer for a week is hard. I don’t know how the pioneers survived without email and RSS feeds. Anyway, I know you don’t come here to read about my life so I leave you with an illustration I did for our family’s Christmas card this year. In an effort to keep an eye on the true meaning of Christmas I chose to illustrate a little nativity vignette of Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus. If the Christ Child was anything like my new baby, Joseph and Mary didn’t get much sleep.
One other note, a friend of mine commented that he was happy to see some chickens getting a little nativity exposure. We always see cows, donkeys, sheeps, and goats in nativity scenes, maybe the occasional camel, but never chickens. So there you go chickens, this one is for you.
And for everyone else have a merry Christmas!
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