Last night was the Church Christmas Program. We had dinner first, then the adults moved into the Sanctuary for a Sing-along while we prepared and costumed the children. We had about an hour of adult carol singing before we got the o.k. to bring in the kids.
Meanwhile, in the Fellowship Hall, we were trying to keep 40 or so kids occupied and uncrumpled. I had 12 angels and shepherds between the ages of 4 and 6. Keeping them from bending wings and losing halos was quite a challenge.
We sent a Scout into the Sanctuary to check on the Sing-along progress. The Scout returned with bad news. Twenty more minutes. Our Children's Ministries Director fell back to her Plan B, which was her Ace in the Hole in case the video she had brought along finished too early.
"Whose name begins with a 'B'?" she asked. A couple of hands went up. "Think of a word that has something to do with Christmas that begins with a 'B'," she said.
The children who had raised their hands began to yell out, "Bells . . . " and other Christmas-related "B" words, which I can't now seem to remember.
From the water fountain at the end of the room, a boy yelled, "What about 'A'?"
"I'll get to 'A' in a minute, Adam," she yelled back. "But for now, whose name begins with a 'C'?"
She managed to get through "D" (for which we couldn't really think of anything) before having to return to "A".
"Alright," she called above the din, "whose name begins with 'A'?"
Alexandra and Adam raised their hands.
"Alexandra, what about you," she asked. Alexandra looked puzzled. "What about those things behind you?" the Children's Ministries Director prompted, pointing at the costumed angels standing directly behind her.
"Oh, yeah," Alexandra responded. "Angels!"
"What about you, Adam?"
Adam looked stumped. So did everyone else in the room. No one could come up with any other Christmas item that began with an "A".
Finally, from one little girl sitting in the middle of one of the tables, came this response:
"What about 'afterbirth'?"
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