A Different Kind of Christmas!

Well, Christmas was a little different this year. By the time we got to Utah, all of the good trees were gone and we went with a little developmentally challenged fellow. But he dressed up nicely and we put him in a moving box on a table and went with a moving themed Christmas. I actually didn’t miss the huge guy in the corner shedding needles all over the rug and being repeatedly knocked over by the baby as much as I thought I would.

That wasn’t the only difference. There was a marked change in Christmas Eve musical choices as Hannah Jane took an empty wrapping paper tube and belted out “Serve mankind, follow me, be as I am…Abdul Baha…Abdul Baha…” and Joe looks at me like maybe this wasn’t what he had imagined our Christmases to be like before we got married. Who could have predicted he would become Santa Clause to a small herd of Baha’i children? It was hard to see coming. Well, I guess it shouldn’t have been too much of a shock considering all of those mixed up childhood pictures documenting me lighting the menorah in front of the nativity scene.

Anyway, the mix of Little Drummer Boy and Justice is the Way has really added a little flare to our holiday season. And when we talked about baking the annual birthday cake for Baby Jesus, Hunter asked, “And Baha’u'llah’s birthday cake?” And those of you who have heard him say it know it sounds a bit more like, “And Baha’u'lla birday-day?” It’s totally hilarious!

So from this religious mutt, to all of you out there, Merry Christmikkah and a happy next feast!