My family and I typed The New Douai Rhreims Bible by hand including the cross references when oldest kids were still in school. We, as a family, then read and reread every verse in the Bible, searching for grammatical or spelling errors, as a daily devotional for years, until none were found. The older children would help me watch for errors and the younger children listened as my husband read the Bible aloud almost every night. It was our desire that our children would grow up knowing the Bible. The apocryphal books were omitted from the final publication.
My second work is The Christian Christmas Pageant. I had, in the past, searched unsuccessfully for a Christmas play that was a theatrical performance of the Christmas story I was reading in the Bible. I wanted the lines the characters spoke in the play to be what the Bible said was spoken with as little ad lib as possible. Being unsuccessful in my search, I decided to create the play myself. I asked my daughter, who is a carpenter, to create the props to dimension and create instructions how to make the props. I created the costumes and tried them on my children and grandchildren altering them until they worked. This Play book includes the script and all of the instructions needed for creating the props and costumes.
