The Nativity Play List

I have attended last Friday my eighth Nativity Play and as amazing as it can be it's far from being my last one...fortunately. I just love it. I love the singing, I love the story...how many stories can keep you interested when you know the end and you have heard it like 2010 times, I ask you...I love the mess, the noise of the younger siblings...yes even that.... I love the waving and the improvisations but mostly I love the endless imagination of British teachers all over the world in order to give a role to each and every kid of a class of 25 when the original story is about pretty much a young couple and a donkey.
Each 1st of december there is a very strange excitement when I dig in the bottom of the school bag for the slip of paper announcing the role my Nativity kid of the year would have landed, and requiring various items intended to shape the adequate costume.
So, so far my kids have, regardless of gender or size or age, played the role in a Nativity play of : Spiderman, a lion, a sheperd, a sheep, a driver, a sheperd, the mother of a sheperd, a narrator, a sheperd. No lobster so far but one can only hope....and a special tribute to the teachers this year as after all these sheperds in my pre-Xmas life, I only learnt this year that the best way to really keep the tea towel ( checked please) on the kid's head is to tie it with a pair of nylon tights. I know my fellow Nativity mums here will appreciate the tip.