and D1 is happily decorating every house she is given access to with seasonal signs, on which she sometimes consults over spelling and sometimes not. She even got D2 into the game, laboriously copying out The Twelve Days of Christmas, although she only got as far as "Six geese a-laying" and D2 gave up the attempt midway through the fourth word.
This morning they asked me if I wanted to hear the song they had composed. They stood next to their advent calendar and sang for each day's creature: "Oh, the cow is white and the camel is peach and the bird is white and the sheep is gray and the angel is red . . . " all the way through to "and Mary is blue and Joseph is green and baby Jesus is white" "no, brown" "no, white" "no, brown."
At lunchtime they were rehearsing the angel chorus for the Christmas program and after reciting "Good will toward men," D1 asked, "But what about the ladies?"
So, a merry and inclusive Christmas to all of you!
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And a merry Christmas to you and yours, whatever color/race/gender/nationality/side-of-the-country you and they may be on.
And a gift: a free kid's book every week, from http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/kid.html
He does public domain books via email, in straight text format. But the price is right! His entries include Kipling, Jack London, and some of the Tom Swift series. So some age-matching may be needed.
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