Baby Jesus is MISSING

Many years ago my Mom made a ceramic nativity scene.  I have always loved it, and can remember playing with it (moving the animals around) when I was little.  When I had my own house for the first time, Mom let me take the beloved nativity scene with me.  I was so excited!

That Christmas I proudly displayed the nativity on my hutch and showed it off to anyone who visited.  After the holiday season ended my boyfriend at the time helped me carefully pack up my Christmas decorations.

The next Christmas rolled around and I began to unpack my nativity scene.  The baby Jesus was MISSING!  You can only imagine my horror!  I immediately blamed it on the (then) ex-boyfriend (Kyle...if you ever read this, I'm sorry).

I began describing the missing Jesus figurine to everyone in hopes that someone would stumble up on a replacement that looked something like this: 

For four years now I have looked sadly in the box on decorating day at my incomplete nativity scene...until today.


This afternoon the great Andrea Loder was looking in a box of seldom used Christmas decorations and she pulled out a tiny ceramic figurine and says "What's this?"   It was the missing Baby Jesus!!!

All is right with the world!  Thanks Andrea!