Christmas support thread, anyone?

[Frontpaw]

For mums of the 4rd shepherd (back row), second snowflake on the left, yellow lamp flame, fat robin, carrot or donkey's arse in the nursery/school nativity.

All together now "yes, Marty has the biggest part again, but that's because his mum's the secretary of the PTA and rather scary [fill in own excusereason]."

Another year, oh another year! When will he be Joseph? When will he get to speak? When will two years of effing drama classes pay off?

My ds decided not to practice for the auditions and instead stood up and sang 'I have a song that will get on your nerves' until they made him shut up. He is however Joseph! But wait, since when did Joseph have no lines to read? Stuffed again.

Oh god, same at my dc's school.

Same kids always get the main parts.

Luckily my dds are happy to stay at the back and not speak!

DS was an angel last year, he was overjoyed as he got to wear a tinsel crown rather than one covered with cotton wool when he was a shepherd.

The year of the shepherd he forgot all about what was going on and sat pulling off all the cotton wool rolling it up into balls and you could see he was having his own little play

I did get to play Mary one year, aged 9, but it wasn't a speaking part. I don't think it ever is.

That mother of Jesus was a very quiet woman.

Best moment ever was DSs friend (aged 6) as Joseph,

" 'ave tha' room for me and t'wife, lad?"

This year DS2 is King Herod "the reeely eeeevil one wah-ha-ha-ha!"

My DF swears we were once in a nativity as nippers when one of the wise men refused to hand over his gift to the bebby cheeses.

We have a very small class and he's still only a colour.

Ds was a sheep once. He made the part his own though.

Why people came to see baby Jesus asleep on the hay when there was a break dancing sheep worthy of a place on Britains got Talent in the stable, I don't know :o

My dbro was an exploding pink rabbit one year....

Was he supposed to explode?

Yes he was actually

I've got one angel and one sheep this year. Sheep was originally cast as a shepherd, but apparently "several mums had questioned the casting of their own PFB children this year and would I mind if DS was a sheep instead?"

I said, fine.

So, now the casting list has changed and there are now four wise men (that mum must have really dug her heels in) and five shepherds.

This is a nursery nativity too - the preschool room get the main parts, the toddlers and babies just get dressed up as stars and roll around on the stage. I totally can't wait to see the carnage.

The mums will all cry and be glued to camcorders anyway. They won't actually sit and enjoy it.

School plays/assemblies are always a source of humiliation for our household. DS2 recently had a class assembly and continously played with himself (he was on the front row) for a whole 20 minutes. The entire row I was on and the one behind me was in tears. If he's not fiddling with his bits he's pecking his nose. I pray to God he will be the sheep at the back behind stage school Joseph!