![]() ![]() ![]() Without taking her eyes off the small grouping under the tree she slowly got up and started inching backward toward me. Those must have been more interesting than the tree because she studied them all very carefully.Īfter a bit she turned her head to look up at me and then turned back to the figurines. She stayed where she was for a minute and then noticed the nativity scene I had set-up under the tree and squatted down to examine Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, the donkey, the lamb, the shepherd carrying the baby lamb, and the three wise men. She stood in front of it with her head tilted back and eyes opened wide. From her point of view it must have been an impressive tree what with all the tinsel, ornaments, and colored lights I had put on it. It was seven feet tall and must have seem huge to her. When my niece first saw my tree that year she stopped dead in her tracks and just stared at it in wonder. At the time her mother was a Jehovah's Witness which, as you know, meant my sister did not celebrate Christmas. I had forgotten this fact until my niece came over to my house at Christmas when she was three-years-old. Each Christmas is a new experience to them for at least the first four or five years of their lives. When children are very small they do not remember things that happen from year to year too well. ![]()
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