AUDREY: [Pointing at the ceramic nativity, newly unpacked and set up on a high shelf out of reach] Mama! [Point. Pointpointpoint.] I wanna see Jesus!

ME: I want to see Jesus, too, baby, but I don’t think tonight’s the night.

AUDREY: [Blink. Point.] Mama? See Jesus?

DANE: Oh, great. Now you’ve made it funny.

AUDREY: [Gives up on Mama.] Daddy? Lift me up. I wanna see Jesus.

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Oh, all right, that’s probably only funny if you’re an evangelical Christian living in hope of rapture (that’s RAPTURE, as in the second coming of the Christ, not RUPTURE, which is something entirely less pleasant) and also familiar with the phrase “lift up in prayer.” There. Is it funny now that I’ve explained the joke? No? Still not? Hmm. Well, national blog posting month will be over tomorrow and then I’ll stop feeling obligated to put words on the screen every single day, okay? Okay then. Thanks.