Category Archives: Advent

As I sat and contemplated how I wanted our family’s advent observances to look back in November, one word kept coming up in my mind: counter-cultural. Everything I want to teach and experience with the boys during advent and Christmas … Continue reading →

I’ve been neglecting a few hobbies and responsibilities the last week or so in order to get crafty. I am only allotted a small amount of time each day after the boys go to bed in order get things done … Continue reading →

We had to get caught up on our Jesse tree yesterday. We had a couple busy nights, and just never got to it. Luckily, Elias enjoys making/coloring the ornaments, and seeing our Jesse Tree fill up. As you can see … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →