This is another advent wreath that I made. click here for the 2-D wreath. I try to make Advent “real” for kids–I want the kids to have the same excitement over the lighting of a “new” candle but in a safe way! This project has so many possibilities: use toilet paper tubes and cover with…
Tag: intentional living
Advent idea # 5 (25 days of reading)
25 days of reading! I love this idea–I read about how a mom had carefully wrapped 25 books and each night she read one to her child at night. Then when her second baby came along she carefully wrapped 50 books and read each child a book at night (I thought this was crazy but…
Creating a home for Advent
What was Mary thinking when she was on her way to Bethlehem? That was my mantra in 2005. It was December and I was big as a barn pregnant with my #3 baby. My husband was in Japan for 8 weeks of my last trimester and I was trying to “manage” two other kids,…