Advent & Christmas 2019
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| I cleared off our nature table for the boys' nativity set and put up "waiting" for Advent. The beautiful wooden letters from the Etsy shop Treasures From Jennifer. They are a homeschool family too! |
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| We read the liturgy "To mark the start of the Christmas season" from Every Moment Holy again this year. |
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| Fisher price nativity & Dickens quote |
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| I bought this little wreath at Trader Joes for $7 |
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| Advent/Christmas picture book display & mini tree in the dining room |
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| All 5 of us got the flu midway through Advent and it was awful, especially being pregnant. I think it was the most miserably sick I've ever been as an adult. It stole almost 2 weeks of December. |
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| Our paper snowflakes this year. We even laminated a few of them. |
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| After we were all fairly healthy we finally made Christmas cut-out cookies (my mom's chocolate recipe that I love). |
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| A couple of new books we added to our Christmas collection. I read the first 3-4 chapters of The History of Christmas on my own. It is a great resource. |
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| We clipped the sheep's hooves for the first time. Also we rented a ram for about a month starting at the end of November to service our two ewes. We are hoping for some lambs this spring. |
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| We will sheer them before they lamb. Their fleeces are beautiful! |
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| I cleared off the craft table for our winter puzzle. |
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| The boys and I made 96 Pizzelles. They turned our yellower this year, I think because of our chicken's rich yokes. The recipe we used takes a dozen eggs! |
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| For the first time, we waited to put the Christ child with the nativity sets until Christmas morning. We were happily surprised that our 3 year old was affected by this--he was eagerly waiting and kept talking about when Jesus would be born. |
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| A new place for our Jesus/Jesse Tree. We read the first ~8 chapters of The Biggest Story by Kevin DeYoung to go along with the ornaments. |
Resources:
The Biggest Story
Treasures From Jennifer
The History of Christmas
Waiting on the Word: A poem a day for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany - this was another book new to us this year. Dan and I both enjoyed the poems and commentary.