Seven Nativity sets:
Felt, stone, ceramic,
One thimble sized,
Precious Moments,
Squeezable dolls,
Nesting Matryoshka.
Some fragile, some not.
We set the felt and doll sets low,
for our children to play with.
The other four find high shelves.
Three-year-old watches wide-eyed,
then drags a stool to each shelf
and carefully takes the sets down.
She gathers the many Marys
around baby Jesus.
They talk about their baby
And their day.
The Josephs stand guard.
The wisemen all lie down
To sleep under the Christmas tree.
The shepherds chase their
flocks across the room.
Then she gently takes my hand,
and tells me the story of Christmas.
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