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Olive and the Baby Jesus

by Lisa Creech Bledsoe on December 19, 2009 · 3 comments

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This is our family nativity set, dutifully brought out every year, repeatedly organized by miscellaneous boys, periodically misplaced, wholly enjoyed. Joseph is always the most dishevelled looking; once his hair came partially unglued he was never the same. Several animals have disappeared over the years (I personally miss the chicken), and once in a while people mistake the llama/goat/donkey boy for Jesus, but typically the baby Jesus — whom we keep tied to Mary so he doesn’t wander off — is the star of the show.

Until Olive came to live with us, that is.

Nativity plus OliveShe loves the nativity barn! She hasn’t actually met the Baby Jesus yet ’cause she keeps sitting on him (hate it when that happens), but I think he’s probably used to this sort of thing. Olive sits on us all the time too. It’s what kittehs do.

You can see more of Olive and the Baby Jesus on my Flickr; be sure to turn on the titles, cause they’re lol-y.

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Our Nativity Set

December 9, 2007

My favorite is the little goat-boy (bottom left corner, nice necklace). Over the years the goat-boy has been in charge of different animals, but currently he seems to be responsible for the llama, a camel, the donkey, the little black goat plus a little blue one, a stripey rabbit, a red cat, and two ducks [...]

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A Possum Named Zero

April 2, 2007
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I adored my job at the museum. In addition to all the museum’s design work, I loved hanging out with and helping the animal staff. Because the museum had such an extensive animal collection, we were often the recipients of lost, abandoned, or wounded animals. One day a shoebox — well-poked with pencil-sized holes — [...]

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