Miss Lilly decorated the church, yep, she did! Five adults prepped the stage for the little kids Christmas program coming up this weekend, and Lilly helped.
Remember that old Shake and Bake commercial, where the little girl with her southern twang happily chimed in, "And I helped." Well, that was Miss Lilly.
On that Sunday after church, after a quick meal at Subway, a few of us traipsed back to the church to put up a curtain rod and a backdrop. That's all that was needed from the men. But, you know, with all that help, and their willingness to stick around to do more, we did. We did more. And don't forget Miss Lilly, she helped. And I mean, she de-cor-ated...!
The theme? "I Saw Three Ships". The stage would be set as a pier with a palm tree hanging over a trunk, a fence roll, a barrel, some crates, and some wooden boxes. Painted in the center of the backdrop would be a big brown ship moored to shore.
While I sat on the blue carpeted floor to cut nylon fishing line to length to hang some jellyfish, Miss Lilly was busy, too. She dismantled my 10 inch palm tree!
Yep, that palm tree became a tower on her island in the middle of the sanctuary.
I didn't realize what the mess was all about until her daddy, told me, "Well, yah, I knew that. That's what she said it was." She'd pulled 3 foam play mats from some other kid's pew and dotted it with jumbo legos, her houses.
When I got up to find some nails for the men, she unrolled a ball of large rope down the length of the church, but when she started on the nylon fishing line I'd left lay, I said, "Uh-uh, girl, that's not happening!"
An unfolded step ladder became a mountain to climb, a nativity wiseman became a lost man on that island, and an open pocket knife got preemptively snatched when we spied her chubby little hands reaching out, "What's this?"
As we walked up and down the church looking for her misplaced green teddy bear, there were obvious evidences of unobserved play -- boxes askew, pencil laying on scribbled paper, books flat open, and...hey, wait a minute, "Oh, Miss Lilly!"... there on their sides laid two little brown boots..."Are you missing your shoes?"
At this point, she not only had lost her shoes, and her green teddy bear, she lost her good mood, too. She didn't want to go home. There were too many fun, unhindered by parents, things to do; and lots of space to do it in!
When an overly large white wooly sheep can be your pony, who needs a children's Christmas play?
Decorating is much more fun, just ask a wiseman.
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