Holidays

Program Scripts

Program Scripts   Group Christmas Program Narration, December 2011 For our program, I took the musical and other offerings of our students and arranged them into a program entitled Gifts and Giftings with the attached narration.  A great portion of it is Scripture. Norwalk First UMC Christmas Cantata Canticle of Joy by Joseph M. Martin, [...]

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The Play

The Play   We had a lot of fun doing this as a family on Christmas Eve. It was the second production for this skit, written by my son. He and two fellow homeschoolers put it on at a program before Christmas.  

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How Great Our Joy

How Great Our Joy  

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Russian Carol and What Child Is This

Russian Carol and What Child Is This  

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Where Shepherds Lately Knelt

Where Shepherds Lately Knelt  

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What Child Is This?

What Child Is This?   This is my sweet hubby.  

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O Come All Ye Faithful, version 2

O Come All Ye Faithful  

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Celebrate the Coming of the Lord!

Celebrate the Coming of the Lord!  

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O Holy Night

O Holy Night  

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Angels From the Realms of Glory

Angels From the Realms of Glory  

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Christmas Medley

Christmas Medley  

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Oh How Joyfully

Oh How Joyfully  

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O Come All Ye Faithful, version 1

O Come All Ye Faithful  

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The Snows of Christmas

The Snows of Christmas  

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Gesu Bambino

Gesu Bambino  

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Do You Hear What I Hear? piano

Do You Hear What I Hear?  

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The People That In Darkness Sat

The People That In Darkness Sat  

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Do You Hear What I Hear? choir

Do You Hear What I Hear?   arranged by Harry Simeone  

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Mary Did You Know?

Mary Did You Know?   arranged by Carol Tornquist  

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Always With Us

Always With Us   Written for JournEzine‘s Christmas Story Contest, 2011.

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Christmas Letter 2011

Christmas Letter 2011   After such a fun flurry of letter-writing last Christmas, I’m feeling a bit put upon to perform this year. You know, everything always has to get bigger and better—and more expensive—over time. Otherwise the economy is failing. Oh, wait, that’s another subject. But you see, while I was in a playful [...]

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The Gift Exchange

The Gift Exchange   That is IT. I absolutely forbid my family from participating in any more white elephant gift exchanges.  

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A Beekeeper’s Christmas

A Beekeeper’s Christmas   If you didn’t get to hear the gift exchange story, here it is. A Beekeeper’s Christmas Merry Christmas to all our beekeeping friends in Lorain County Beekeepers Association and elsewhere.

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Christmas Decorations, 2011

Christmas Decorations, 2011   Lest you think I’m strange for my holiday decorating indifference, I decided to do something about it. Good enough.

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Christmas Letter, 2010

Christmas Letter, 2010   Dear Everyone, Call me lazy but I think putting my Christmas letter here is a whole lot easier than addressing, stuffing, and stamping a whole bunch of envelopes. Sorry, Post Office. Call me indecisive but I really couldn’t decide which version I liked best so I posted them all. They’re short; [...]

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I Am Thankful–Really

I Am Thankful–Really   November 28, 2011 It’s been a strange year.  I’m a homebody, you see, but we kicked off 2011 by driving thirty minutes one way seven days a week for six weeks to take our 14 year old son to robotics. Yeah. At the same time I started two part-time jobs.  One [...]

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The Promise

The Promise Co-authored with Deb Ott for JournEzine‘s Christmas Story Contest, 2010.

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