Each year the Kindergarten class acts out the Christmas Gospel reading at the Christmas Eve Children's Mass. This year was Ashlin's turn to be in the Kindergarten pageant. The sign-up form laid on our kitchen counter for days because she kept saying that she would not participate if she couldn't be Mary. We explained to her that only one little girl in the class could be Mary and that the teachers picked who got to portray Mary. She wouldn't agree to be in the pageant. Finally, one day she agreed to be an angel, but only if I would turn the paper in to her teacher.
Christmas Eve arrived and again she wouldn't cooperate for us. We got to church and she refused to put on her costume. She stood in the bride's room and cried while all of her classmates looked on asking, "Why is Ashlin crying Mrs. Leader?". Finally, when Mrs. Simon told them it was time to line up, Ashlin dried her tears and lined up by a classmate, but I had to stay close by. Then her classmate, Angelica, said that if Ashlin was scared she would hold her hand. When the cue came for the angels to make their appearance, Ashlin fluttered her wings and walked up front to the altar. Then after the Christmas story was finished the class sang Away In A Manger and the children could leave and sit by their parents.
P.S. You wouldn't believe how much bribing and threatening I was doing in the back to get her to put on her costume and be an angel. We'll see how Justin acts when his turn comes up in Kindergarten.
Take care,
Michelle
Nothing wrong with bribing and threatening! Not in my book, at least.
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