Decoration of the Day - Day 1

I have never yet written a successful blog series in the sense of having completed what I started.  But I'm going to try again this month by going through our Christmas decorations - one per day (the ones with stories behind them).  And so:

Day 1 - Nativity Set with Donkey 

The Mary/Joseph/Baby figure was a present from H's mother for Christmas in 2007, because H didn't yet have a full Nativity set.  It's a Jim Shore ornament, meant to be hung on a tree, but the base is flat and she's always put it up as a book shelf.

When Chez Stutters celebrated our first Christmas together, M moved Donkey over next to Mary/Joseph/Baby to see if H's head would explode from the combination of pop culture and churchiness.  It didn't - instead, H thought it was awesome, and has insisted that Donkey join Mary/Joseph and Baby each year since (this is our third Christmas).

We now have (well H has) a full nativity set that lives at her parents' house, as well as one that lives at Chez Stutters.  But that doesn't stop Donkey being the star of our original nativity.