Advent Traditions
Our Nativity Scene Which we often stop and talk about all of the pieces and the story. The girls also have a little people set that they can play with. Every year we look forward to the holiday season. It begins with Halloween and moves rather quickly to Thanksgiving. We try hard to enjoy these days in and of themselves but part of us is secretly excited that soon it will be the Christmas season. Now in the true religious sense the Christmas season doesn't begin until midnight mass on Christmas eve. The season that truly lies between Thanksgiving and Christmas days is Advent. As a family we have been trying to instill some advent traditions which enlighten us to the true meaning of Christmas: the birthday of Jesus. Please don't kid yourself when you think we don't also fall into the hustle and bustle of modern Christmas season: shopping, decorating, baking, eating to much - yep we do that too - we just try to also have some fun memories of ...