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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sweetmummy.lifewithchrist.org/page/christmas-series-2007.html&quot;&gt;Christmas-time at our House&lt;/a&gt;: part 6&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have a few Nativity Scenes around our house:  one was made in Indonesia (Papua I think) from a coconut shell -my sweetie brought it back from a trip overseas a few years ago;  one we bought in Skagway Alaska this summer that has the holy family in an igloo;  one is a music box that my mom gave me years ago; another is an ornament that my grandma gave us for our first Christmas married - it is a musical ornament and it has a lovely sound.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We also have lots of other nativity ornaments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://sweetmummy.lifewithchrist.org/page/christmas-time-at-our-house-part-2.html&quot;&gt;our tree&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It&#039;s covered with them!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then, we have &lt;strong&gt;THE Nativity&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;225&quot; alt=&quot;Just a Cow&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee92/sweetmummyof3/Justacow.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The &#039;official&#039; Nativity Scene in our house&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pretty exciting, eh?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, that is what our Nativity looks like right now.&amp;nbsp; After all, isn&#039;t that how the Christmas story starts?&amp;nbsp; In a stable with animals and hay and such?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We do a Progressive Nativity at our house.&amp;nbsp; That means that we start with just the cow and the stable and we add pieces to it as the season goes along.&amp;nbsp; The way we add the pieces helps us to tell the story of Christ&#039;s birth.&lt;/p&gt;
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