olson-_tree_20060034.jpgTradition 3

Baby Jesus, Our Greatest Treasure of all. 

When Hannah and Hunter were very small, we bought a cheap doll from Walmart, wrapped him in swadling clothes, we placed Raffia in a basket and placed him under our tree as  Jesus is our greatest gift ever.

         **** Last year we replaced  the Walmart doll with an American Girl medium skinned Bitty Baby, as we wanted to get a way from the caucasion blue eyed Jesus and bring in that Jesus was Jewish and most likely had olive skin and brown eyes :)

 Noelle Piper has written a wonderful book called Treasuring God in our Traditions.

God Bless, Laura