Nativity SheepEvery year my family does a Nativity program at my Grandparents for Christmas. Sadie, my yellow lab, was supposed to be a sheep (with fairy wings) and my nephew the Shepard. My niece was playing the part of Mary holding her little baby doll as Jesus. As my Aunt reads the Nativity story, Sadie decides to leave the Shepard and venture over to Mary's side. She sits down next to Mary and starts licking the baby Jesus. "Oh, that's so cute" everyone exclaims "she's giving baby Jesus kisses". AND then the head of baby Jesus disappears...disappears in the mouth of the "sheep". Everyone is yelling at Sadie to DROP it! And my little niece is screaming "She ate baby Jesus!!" Sadie did immediately drop the baby and Mary was able to rescue it. We were all laughing so hard! After everyone calmed down we finished the rest of the Nativity program one sheep short...my grandpa was insistent that she was not really a sheep, but a wolf in sheep clothing! The Nativity program will never be the same again...sheep will never be allowed to participate. And from now on whenever I hear the Nativity story a phrase will enter my mind "she ate baby Jesus" and I'll remember when Christmas almost wasn't! The sequel to the Nativity Story: "A dingo ate my baby"....perhaps irreverent but funny!!
