We spent yesterday morning and afternoon catching up on our Advent activities from earlier this week, including coloring Christmas pictures (see “Don’t Color Christmas Pictures”). We drew some Christmas pictures and made a few Christmas presents in the process. I’m dying to post pictures of these gifts, but I don’t want to give away theContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Eight: Make Christmas Cookies”
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Advent Day Seven: Watch Polar Express
This evening’s event was perfect for the kind of day we had. Lydia and Elvis both stayed home from school, and Lydia tested positive for strep, so it was an ideal evening to watch one of our favorite Christmas movies. We drove up to my mom- and dad-in-law’s house this evening for the weekend. HenryContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Seven: Watch Polar Express”
Advent Day Six: Don’t Color Christmas Pictures
I intended for the kids to color Christmas pictures last night for Advent but, well, it didn’t work out. Last night was Lydia’s first basketball practice. She had fun, and I’ll refrain from going into all of the details about chasing Henry up and down the hallways, blockading him from trying to run onto theContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Six: Don’t Color Christmas Pictures”
Advent Day Five: Take a Winter Walk
Today’s advent activity is supposed to be “Take a winter walk.” It is at least cold enough today to call it winter, but I’m a little bummed that I put this on the calendar before looking at an extended forecast. It would be much more fun to do this with snow. I think it’ll stillContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Five: Take a Winter Walk”
Advent Day Four: Write a Christmas Wish List
We all put together our Christmas wish lists tonight, and then sent our crew to bed at 7 p.m. Everyone was quite tired and cranky this evening and should benefit from the early bedtime.We made wish lists, too, but no need to post those. Lydia’s is so much more precious.
Advent Day Three: Dance to Christmas Music
Welp, not all advent activities can be as romantic or successful as the rest. I woke up this morning with an ugly cold that landed me on the couch most of the day, and advent activity #3 was supposed to be “dance to Christmas music.” This isn’t so appealing when your head is pounding.Lydia hadContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Three: Dance to Christmas Music”
Advent Day Two: Read a Christmas Book
Each year, opening the Christmas boxes releases magic in our house. The homemade ornaments, treasured angels and globes, snowmen mugs and dishes, candles, Christmas lights, stocking hangers, wreath, and so on cause eruptions of “Oh! Look at this!” from the kids, and honestly, from me, too. I find myself picking up ornaments and carrying themContinueContinue reading “Advent Day Two: Read a Christmas Book”
Advent: The First Candle (Poem)
In November, our lips trembledwith the breath of winter etched in frost across the windows. We gazed at dawn’s arrival casting bands of icy glitter on brass and copper oak leaves holding tight to frozen branches, as if they could stop the turnof seasons, suspend the spinof Earth around the sun, butnothing can slow thisContinueContinue reading “Advent: The First Candle (Poem)”
Advent Day One: Make Hot Cocoa
December 1: Make Hot CocoaI loooooove hot chocolate, but the mix stuff leaves a horrible corn syrup aftertaste in my mouth and frankly gives me the McGurgles. It made me so sad the first time I tried some after our diet change. So today, we’re trying paleo hot chocolate. I grabbed this recipe from EasyContinueContinue reading “Advent Day One: Make Hot Cocoa”
Sarah Marie Wells 