It’s hard to avoid holidays here in North America. We often complain that Halloween / Thanksgiving / Christmas decorations go up too early (frequently overlapping with the holiday before them). Yet despite this frenzy of decorating and celebrating, it can still be hard to get into the holiday mood. Especially for Christmas. Advent is the […]
How to Create an Advent Candle Tradition with Your Children
This Sunday is the first Sunday in Advent, the season in which Christians around the world count down until Jesus’ birth at Christmas. Christie Thomas is a mom who has written a series of Advent readings to celebrate the season with her kids. Today, she’s here to share a bit of background of this tradition […]
Third Week of Advent: Listen
At the beginning of December, I pulled out the girls’ Christmas books, my Christmas CDs, our Nativity sets, and a few other decorations. Anticipating some new music, I popped Michael W. Smith into the CD player in the truck as we headed into town. After the first joyous burst of music, however, I found my […]
Second Week of Advent: Trust
Being pregnant over the Advent and Christmas season with all three of our daughters has given me a new appreciation of what Mary went through in the Nativity story. It’s an old story, one that most of us are quite familiar with. I’d heard it every Christmas growing up so I kinda stopped thinking about […]
Declutter (A Reflection for the First Week of Advent)
I’m trying not to freak out when I look at the calendar. This is the first week in Advent, which means Christmas is right around the corner and our move to the mainland is right after that. I’m double-checking the Christmas list to make sure we’ve got presents for everyone while calling moving companies. I’ve […]
3 Reasons I Love Advent
We’re almost at the end of the first week of Advent, and I haven’t done nearly as many Advent activities as I’d hoped. The girls have been busy at school and I’ve been busy finishing off my last week of classes at the university. We did decorate our house and pull out the Christmas books […]
Advent Resources for Children
Next Sunday is the start of Advent (already!), the count-down to Christmas. I’m looking forward to doing some fun activities with Sunshine and Lily to celebrate the season (and so are they—in fact, they’re currently counting down to Advent!). Here are a few of the Advent resources for children I’ve found to help us make […]
