Nuthinfancy is on vacation so I may be the only one posting "What is this doing in my house, Monday" but that’s ok because my entry is good. And she’ll be sorry she went on vacation before seeing it… but first, some background so you understand why my entry is so "good…
Monday night I had some really odd dreams. One of them was about, well, it was about Jesus. I won’t go into the gory details but I will tell you that throughout the dream E and her rabbit sang "Jesus Loves Me". I don’t think I’ve ever dreamt about Jesus before. (have you?) I have attributed the odd dream to the reading of Whale Season on Sunday (I finished it on Monday). No, I’m not heading toward some spiritual crisis or finding my religion or anything else so don’t bother suggesting it. Anyway, it was just weird enough that I didn’t really want to talk about it. I did, however, find myself singing "Jesus loves me" off and on for a couple of days. Also weird since that hasn’t happened since E was gifted with her Jesus loves me singing rabbit a year ago, at Easter of course.
Anyway, I was coming off of that weird dream and the weirder fixation on the song on Wednesday when today’s What’s this doing in my house Monday item popped onto my radar. I headed to the backyard with the dogs, for some fresh air and to water the garden in hopes of keeping myself from saying a lot of things I didn’t really want or need to say. Sounds like a good idea, right? Right. As I went out the back door and stepped over Chanel’s dog food bowl I noticed something IN Chanel’s bowl. Odd. Jakey has never allowed a trace of food to be leftover in either his bowl or hers so I looked more closely. What the… What the heck is JOSEPH doing in Chanel’s bowl??
Yes, it’s Joseph. From a nativity. It looks a little familiar but most Joseph’s from the nativity look alike to me, so I’m really not 100% sure this Joseph did come from one of our nativities. I mean it must have, otherwise how would it have gotten into Chanel’s bowl? But then again, how did it get there in the first place? Four months after Christmas? When TW insists all decorations (shhh she’s troubled about last week’s Christmas tree photos) are put away before New Years?
OK maybe the dogs dug into one of the decoration boxes without me noticing it. That could happen because they are stored in the garage and the garage is a mess. Let’s assume that happened. Why just this one piece? Jake is a very thorough dog. When he gets into something, he REALLY gets into it. So why aren’t more decorations floating around the house? Let’s pretend this was just "found" by one of the dogs and we somehow didn’t manage to get it put away to start with… so why no chew marks? teeth marks? drool? on it? I know you can’t tell from the picture but it’s really in ok shape considering it has definitely been removed from a nativity where it was once "glued" to the manger.
It’s in my house and probably belongs here because TW has a fondness for the nativity. But it’s weird that it appeared, out of nowhere, last week, in a dog food bowl.
What weirdness is in your house?
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That is an awesome what is this doing in my house, or more accurately what is this doing in my dogs water bowl!
*Clap Clap Clap* Well done I say, well done!!!
Gigggle,that’s sort of like the Santa hat that appeared in my hallway, plus the tea towell falling on my head. Great what is this doing in my house picture.
Uh, I lost Baby Jesus from our nativity set at Christmas-time. (Well, my daughter did.) I don’t suppose WonderDog could help me find him?
LOL…how can you say you don’t have a spiritual crisis looming?…dreams of rabbits that sing “Jesus loves me” and mysteriously appearing nativity figurines spell “looming spiritual crisis” in big bold capital letters like nothing else!