Favorite Christmas Ornament
Reading a few of my regularly-read blogs today, I've enjoyed several posts featuring favorite Christmas ornaments. So I just have to follow suit, only my favorite ornament doesn't hang on the tree. It is a very special Nativity set, made by my middle ds, when he was 6 years old, in a pottery class:
You probably can't see this, but the eyes on these figures were formed by his six-year-old thumbnail pressed gently into the soft clay.
He will never be six again. But I will always, always have his thumbnail-prints, even when he is a grown man with children of his own and I am very old and in a nursing home and forced to choose the five or six possessions I am allowed to take with me into my sad and lonely room. I will not be so lonely with my little Nativity set there to remind me of ds.
You probably can't see this, but the eyes on these figures were formed by his six-year-old thumbnail pressed gently into the soft clay.
He will never be six again. But I will always, always have his thumbnail-prints, even when he is a grown man with children of his own and I am very old and in a nursing home and forced to choose the five or six possessions I am allowed to take with me into my sad and lonely room. I will not be so lonely with my little Nativity set there to remind me of ds.
posted by Mamabird @ 9:02 PM
1 Comments:
At 5:27 AM,
Donna Boucher said…
Your nativity is truly a treasure!!!
Not only is it precious because your little son made it...
but it is actually fantastic looking!
Wow!
Thank you for sharing it with us!
Donna
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