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Advent: Day 10

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Kimberly

Advent reminds me of that song “Light of the World.” The beginning lyrics are Light of the world, You stepped down into darkness Opened my eyes, let me see Though Elias is too young to really understand a metaphor, I … Continue reading →

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Advent: Day 9

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Kimberly

I skipped a couple days writing about our advent activities…but as I say sometimes….we were busy living life instead of writing about it. Today we made our own wrapping paper for our advent activity. We are trying to take the … Continue reading →

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Brotherly Love

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Kimberly

Today we had one of the sweetest moments so far in my pregnancy. Elias was in the process of waking up from his nap. He at first was too tired and grumpy to do anything except push off my attempts … Continue reading →

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Imma Boss

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Kimberly

After a fun morning at church, and a relaxing afternoon while Elias napped (I have the best husband ever who went grocery shopping so I didn’t have to!), I had quite a busy evening. I cooked a triple batch of … Continue reading →

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Smith Family Winter 2012 Bucket List

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Kimberly

Well it is late in the season to just be posting our winter bucket list (although it is not technically winter yet…it’s cold enough). But we’ve been living life and it was hard to find time to actually make the … Continue reading →

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Advent: Day 6

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Kimberly

Elias and I are taking it easy today. We haven’t had a day just at home for a couple weeks now, and while we do have lots of errands that need to be done, I decided we’d put those off … Continue reading →

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Advent: Day 5 – St. Nicholas Feast Day!

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Kimberly

Happy St. Nicholas Day! Today for our advent activities we are celebrating St. Nicholas’ Feast Day. Last year, Nathan and I decided that we are not going to “do” Santa Claus. Not because we think he’s a bad guy or … Continue reading →

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Advent: Day 4

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Kimberly

Our family has been sponsoring children through World Vision for almost four years now. We started with just one girl from Zimbabwe. She is now a beautiful young adolescent. Then a couple years later we added a young girl from … Continue reading →

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Advent: Day 3

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Kimberly

Observing advent with a toddler is hard. It’s been pretty good so far, I think. But I’ve been frustrated with our Jesse Tree stories. Yesterday’s story was more than a whole chapter’s worth of the Bible, and today was one … Continue reading →

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Advent: Day 2

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Kimberly

It is fun to see Elias so excited about his advent calendar…even if it is probably mostly because he just wants the chocolate inside. This morning the first thing he wanted to do when he woke up was turn on … Continue reading →

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