We’ve been slipping into a relaxed rhythm of slower days and peaceful evenings. Of course having a little one with a fever for the last two days has helped insure more home time. Last night, I finally pulled out my nativity sets. The boys were thrilled. We spent a quiet evening with the hubby and […]
Christmas
Advent Thoughts…
Christmas is just around the corner. It’s been on my mind for a while now. For us, Christmas is a wonderful time of remembering back to the anticipation of the coming Messiah and then the events leading up to God coming to earth and being born as a baby. I’ve found is that in order to […]
Christmas Reading
Last year we did a Christmas countdown by having books for them to unwrap each night leading up to Christmas. This year, they have been clamoring to do it again, so we are doing a countdown until we leave to visit Mima and Pa on the 22nd. In order to break things up a bit, […]
Tradition Driven…
Just a year or two I remember agonizing about creating traditions for my kids. I wanted to find just the right things that my kids would remember and do them in just a way so that they would want to do them the following year. What I’m now finding is that traditions just happen. Kids […]
Advent Reading
As you all know I LOVE COUNTDOWNS! So for our Christmas countdown this year, I collected all of my Christmas books and snagged a bunch of great one’s from the library and wrapped up one to be opened up each night before bed! It wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to gather enough books […]