Christmas in Michigan

The Christmas season always seems to become a tsunami of activity

with places to be and things to do.

It is my heart's desire to keep Christmas

"simple, sane, and sacred,"

but that is no easy task.

At the end of 2016, my husband asked me to take a sabbatical from directing dramas

at our church for the 2017 year.

That was a really hard one for me.

It is truly a passion of mine.

But it takes a toll on our family when Mommy has her brained wrapped

around all the details of the next big dramatic presentation at church.

It's very difficult to manage a household of 6 homeschooling children

as well as all the details of such big projects.

My husband and I brokered a deal that I would direct our big Easter drama in 2017

as well as the Missions Drama in October.

Then he would get a year sabbatical until Christmas 2018.

Meanwhile, I have been talking to our church leadership about an amazing 

Christmas dinner theater that our former church in Michigan has been doing for 7 years now.

My friend there and I have been talking about this for several years,

but it just wasn't the right time to introduce it to our church in Texas yet.

Until now!!

My friend said, "Brenda, you need to come up THIS year to see what it is and 

how it's done, so you can do this at your church in 2018."

So, since I'm not caught up in rehearsals this year,

it was the perfect time to take a whirlwind weekend trip

up to Michigan to tour behind-the-scenes of In Bethlehem Inn

and to enjoy front row seats at two evenings of the dinner theater.

My friend who is our church kitchen QUEEN went with me

to learn how to run our kitchen and what a blast we had!!!

Our hospitable host and hostess of our B&B  were simply divine and treated us so well!!
We had two days of snow which made the whole trip magical!!
What a dream to get to visit with so many long-time friends from

our very first church ministry way back when my husband and I were first married!!
I can't wait to see what God has in store for this amazing ministry and the

dinner theater plans for Christmas 2018!!!