advent
O christmas tree
For today’s activity we got our tree and trimmed it. It is beautiful. I took a pic with my iPhone, but I don’t know if I can upload it here. I think I can and this is one more reason to love this phone!!
advent day 14
tonight we lit the joy candle… a couple of things about doing 24 days of advent fun…you are bound to miss a couple and don’t bother trying to make them up. we missed yesterday’s advent activity due to my lack of preparation and our new iphones…(yes, they are as awesome as all get out.) another [...]
advent week 2
ok, i’ve lost count of what days i’ve posted about and what i haven’t… i think day 8 was monday and we made christmas sundaes…vanilla ice cream in holiday bowls with chocolate shell and red and green sprinkles. then last night we opened a book about christmas and read that. tonight we decorated our stockings…we’ll [...]
day 7
i have no pictures of tonight’s advent activity. we just decorated the daily bags that i put the activities in for the next week with some christmasy stickers. it was cute though…i handed deacon tonight’s bag and the box of stickers and he went right to the living room and sat down ready to do/enjoy [...]
advent day 6
yesterday was day 5 and deacon got a barney christmas dvd. i know that isn’t very meaningful, but he is in love with it. tonight for day 6 we made some christmas construction paper garlands. he really liked to scrunch up the paper while i was trying to make the chains. also, i think deacon [...]
Advent
This is an article I wrote for our church newsletter on Advent… Sunday, November 30 marks the beginning of the liturgical season of Advent. There are four Sundays in the season of Advent, leading up to the completion of the season on Christmas Eve. I’m not sure if you noticed this on your last coffee [...]
days 2 and 3
ok, yesterday, today and tomorrow are pretty much all part of one gift. it’s a gift deacon got last year and i divided it up between 3 days to spread it out. day 2 was the little people nativity scene. just the stable and the baby jesus, mary, joseph and the angel. today (day 3) [...]
day one
today we celebrated the first day of advent. i’m not sure if technically the first day of advent was yesterday, but we began our family celebration today. in an effort to make the season more meaningful for us i’ve put in a lot of thought and some prep time. i got paper bags and decorated [...]
