Angels, angels, angels

Every year the women of our church hold an event called Advent by Candlelight. Women are invited to host tables which really just means decorating them and (usually) hosting women from some church group. I said I would host a table, and ended up with two.  Happily a friend helped out and became my co-host. She knew how to fold green cloth napkins into Christmas trees and those were a big hit. We were told to decorate our tables to reflect a favorite Christmas carol.  I chose "Angels We Have Heard on High" and asked those who sat at our tables to bring some angels of their own to share. It was great.  We ended up with tall, slender agnes, modern stylized angels, chubby little cupid angels, homemade angels (one my daughter made in kindergarten) tree topper angels and more. It sounds like a terrible hodgepodge but it actually was really beautiful and fun to hear the stories behind some of the angels. I am really in the Christmas spirit now, and as soon as I figure out who left the one mystery angel behind all will be well.