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So who else is getting ridiculously oversentimental about school nativity play?

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basementbear · 27/11/2008 14:09

DS1 is going to be a cow, and his one line in the play is about how the baby Jesus is going to be our saviour. We were having a talk about this last night and I was trying to inspire him to put a bit of enthusiasm into his speech by saying, "just imagine how amazing it would be if you're just an ordinary cow, to have the baby Jesus born in your barn, blah blah", I found myself welling up!! I shall probably be in floods on the actual night!!

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quickdrawmcgraw · 28/11/2008 10:27

I well up EVERY time ds says his line (woodenly)
I can't talk about the school play to anyone. I'll have to have a seat at the front so noone will be able to look back and catch me blubbing.

VirginiaWoolf · 28/11/2008 11:06

I used to work with someone who actually stopped attending the school nativities etc involving her DC, as apparently she used to blub uncontrollably - yet at work, she was a real tough cookie who you wouldn't think capable of tears under any circumstances! Things with DC can really 'get' you, though - BIL is a HTeacher, very calm and not the emotional type, and was astonished to find himself welling up when he took his own DD in for her first day at school.

zazen · 28/11/2008 11:12

Our Dd was in her first play last year, and was the angel who told the sheepherders.

Unfortunately she had the start of the winter vomiting virus (we didn't know then) and was writhing around on the stage, with tummy cramps, and when it was over she vomited twice, everywhere!

we have it all on school video. I just think she was a star to keep going, and equally mortified that I hadn't taken much / more notice when she had told me her tummy was feeling sick before she walked on to the stage - I thought she suffered from stage fright like I used to!!!

But no! And we all were sick as dogs for christmas hols. Vom central.

Niecie · 28/11/2008 11:17

I wish you lot were at our school - the other mothers are all hard faced bitches a lot less sentimental than me. I never see anybody welling up which just makes me try harder not to blub and then I just want to cry more.

zazen · 28/11/2008 11:22

It's a dirty job niecie, this blubbering palaver, but someone has to do it

next thing you'll be telling us is that they could cut letters open with their cheekbones and have bleached highlighted hair, and a handbags at dawn school drop-off mentality

I know, it is strange that the little people who are just mumbling and stumbling away and singing their little hearts out can be looked upon as odious. I love all the little mishaps - tutus falling off etc! Hilarious!

Niecie · 28/11/2008 11:34

Zazen - have you been to our school then?

Maybe I should blub loudly and get them all going too?

They are desperately cute when they are little aren't they but I find I am just as bad with DS1 who is 8! Mind you when will I change? I can easily see me crying through his wedding in 20 odd years time - it isn't about them being cute really. Its about the passage of time, growing up and traditions and all that stuff.

The only time I didn't feel like crying was DS1's first nativity at the age of 3 when he was sitting on the edge of the stage, singing away and he fell off side ways. Everybody else was horrified but once I saw him get up and knew he was OK, I had a great deal of trouble not laughing my head off.

zazen · 28/11/2008 11:38

They are just so sweet at that age. All the little things that happen to them, and they struggle on! It is hard not to laugh when you know they are OK!!

I suppose that's why blubbing at a wedding is such a cliché - we are all witnessing a rite of passage of our little baby!!! [snif]

ProfYaffle · 28/11/2008 11:43

I'm going to be blubbing like a loon. Not only does dd1 have her first school nativity play (she's a mouse and has to say "he's a king! We don't believe it!" except she says "he's a king! We don't believe him!") but 21mo dd2 is in a nursery nativity as an angel. That's going to be chaos, trying to persuade under 2s to stand in the right place at the right time!

CurlyhairedAssassin · 28/11/2008 12:21

Oh dear, I only have to hear those first introductory plinky plonky bars of Away in the Manger on the piano as the children file in with their hands pressed together in front of them as if in prayer and I'm off........welling up just thinking about it.

Last year DS1's nursery did a lovely nativity and he was a shepherd, and they all just looked so perfect and angelic and peaceful - just really lovely and innocent and full of joy and love......WAAAAAHHHH!!!!

This year he's at school and I don't think he's even IN the play, as he hasn't mentioned it at all, but I am going anyway, and will happily blub like a loon at other people's angelic looking children!

DS2 is 2.5 and he will be dressing up as a reindeer at nursery along with the rest of his group, marching into the hall shaking his little wrists which will have little bells tied to them and singing, what else - Jingle Bells. Reading this thread, I think I'm going to have to take dark glasses with me as I am a mess even reading through these posts......

quickdrawmcgraw · 28/11/2008 12:44

Oh for gawds sake
''plinky plonky bars of Away in the Manger on the piano as the children file in with their hands pressed together in front of them as if in prayer''
I actually teared up. WILL YOU STOP!!

Right, am off to be hard faced bitch now.

lovecat · 28/11/2008 12:54

Oh, Yaffle, you've just reminded me of DD's first nursery Christmas show - she was 22m and an angel, along with another little girl.

The plan was that each set of children would come on, do their song (well, bimble about to it a bit), then go off again. DD and her friend were supposed to be standing on either side of a cardboard box manger filled with rabbit straw and a babyborn dolly in a teatowel whilst Away in a Manger played for their bit.

Of course, it was an utter shambles, we videoed it and it still makes me laugh like a drain when I see the nursery nurse waving baby-Jesus-in-a-box like a football scarf over the heads of the milling crowd of Christmas trees, puddings, angels, reindeer, shepherds, fairies all either wailing or going 'Mummymummymummy' and desperately trying to get at their parents!

JulesJules · 28/11/2008 13:02

DD2 is in her first nativity play this year, she is playing a donkey in the Nursery class play. I don't think I'll cry but I am quite anxious about it. When I brought her to see DD1 in her nursery class nativity two years ago, DD2 kept running on stage. Then she took baby Jesus out of the manger and wouldn't give him back as "It's vewwy dirty in there". I'm hoping there won't be a repeat performance...

ProfYaffle · 28/11/2008 13:04

Lovecat, that's exactly what I'm imagining!

angrypixie · 28/11/2008 13:14

Bugger - my boy is Joseph and was so proud that he must be amazingly talented - went in this morning to check..... he is tallest in the nursery class Am going back to the bible to check for the bit where Joseph towered above the shepherds and the Kings!

noonki · 28/11/2008 17:21

I spent years sobbing my heart out at DSS school plays. With his mum next to me looking like this:

I will be a nightmare when DS1 is old enough!

AuntyVi · 28/11/2008 20:29

Aw! We are not yet at the nativity play stage, but for some reason, even way before I thought about having kids I always used to well up in church over Christmas when they read the line about "..and Mary brought forth her first-born son..."
.. now that I have DS, goodness knows what I'll be like this year!

mashedbanana · 28/11/2008 20:59

my dd who's nearly 4 is going to be mary in nativity at playschool.i'm so excited.i know i'll end up in tears when i see her in her costume.she doesn't have to speak although she probably will,but they're singing carols.at the christingle services i've been known to cry even before having a dc.

IwishIwasamermaid · 28/11/2008 21:07

My 2 little ones are still babies but I'm already worrying about whether there will even be a nativity play when they go to school.

Is it true that some schools have banned it?

Would it be very frowned upon to choose a school based on whether they have a traditional nativity play???

Vulgar · 28/11/2008 22:15

Mermaid - My Ds's school had a very po faced nativity and only selected a few of the children to take part. DS was never selected and i feel very sad that i never saw him in a tea towel outfit. i wasn't even bothered about a starring role, just a walk down the centre of the church with all of his class would have been fine

Now he's 9 I think the nativity play is behind us (sob!)

hope you get some good memories when your time comes

IwishIwasamermaid · 28/11/2008 22:26

Aaaw what a shame Vulgar!

I don't remember my own Nativity, apparently I was an angel (ie singing while wearing a tinsel halo) as everyone had a part.

I do remember my little brother's play though and even then I thought it was magical.

Its such a special thing for parents, I hope I get the chance to see my little ones with tea towels, tinsel and an old shampoo bottle decorated to look like Myrrh.

hockeypuck · 29/11/2008 08:11

DD is "Angel 1" this year with a speaking part (all the Year 2's get the speaking parts, the reception and Year 1's just sing one song each and join in with the rest). She does make a very fetching angel I must say and at least she's not a narrator. I was dreading her being one as they have to wear this horrible red shiny waistcoat, white shirt and dickie bow sit at the side, standing up for their one line while the teacher runs around frantically saying "where is narrator 32? come one, come on, get on the back row between narrator 31 and narrator 33".

DS has just been given his part for this new nursery schools nativity (he's 2 1/2) they must have been running out of ideas for who was present at the actual birth of Jesus, shepherds, sheep cows, Kings, etc and moved on a little. He's a fireman!! which works well as we'll get a lot of use out of the fireman outfit than a shepherd!

I ALWAYS cry, I'm pathetic. Away in a manger sung by candlelight must be the most darn moving song in the world ever!! I look around and wonder why everyone else is so damn dry eyed - miserable heartless people!

flightattendant5 · 29/11/2008 08:31

No. Not in the slightest.
Last year was his first and he was a very sweet donkey who wouldn't keep still

This year he is an innkeeper (one of five, apparently - Goodness knows what that's all about) and has some very confusing costume requirements.

The snippets of songs we have had so far have been cheesy as heck. I will be there but I do not want to be there, iykwim....

Caz10 · 29/11/2008 10:08

Try being the teacher who is meant to be co-ordinating the lot of them/pressing CD player buttons/handing out props etc but you can't because you are crying too much...

piscesmoon · 29/11/2008 10:22

That is so sad, vulgar. I can't believe that FairyMum isn't bothered about missing it! I well up with other people's children.
A Christingle service with a DC holding a candle and singing 'Away in a Manger' always has me in tears!

kyrasmummy · 29/11/2008 10:40

My DD's in 'Whoopsy Daisy angel' and is an animal, all her class are, she's in reception. I shall still blub my way through it though, i have tears in my eyes when she's practicing the songs at home. 'quick now, don't delaay the baby in the stabl;es was born for you and me' 'SOB'

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