an all-consuming mission

This Advent season my life was utterly consumed last month (or so it seemed) with directing our school's Christmas pageant, which was, I learned this fall, part of the job description of the fifth/sixth grade teacher.

Ah-ha.  I have never directed a play before.  But first I had to pick it.  After perusing the selections at my disposal (i.e., rifling through the old plays in the back closet), I picked "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever." With a name like that, how could you go wrong, I surmised.

If you've read the play or the book, you know that it is a comedy that really can't go wrong.  Three of my students had the lead roles as the Herdmans, "the worst kids in the world."  They outfitted themselves with leather jackets, backwards-baseball caps, and sunglasses.   I wish I could post pictures. They looked (and acted) like a combination of the mafia and the three stooges.  They did a fantastic job.

And I got to the play harp, which was cool.

So long, Advent!