The First Week of Advent
THE LORD SHALL COME
One purple candle
This year for Advent we are doing something new to us. I have seen this idea floating around the internet and heard about it last year from a good friend of mine.
We are unwrapping one book a day for all of Advent. These are books about Christmas or the Christmas season (not all religious) that I had on the bookshelves. I only had to purchase three books to make the full twenty-five count for Advent and Christmas day. I am hoping the kids will enjoy this as much as I am looking forward to spending a little time each day reading to them and preparing for Jesus' birthday.
Today was Gianna's day to unwrap the book.
Today's book is Christmas ABC.
This is a delightful book published in 1944 by The Guild Associates. It is very small, but full of wonderful short rhyming verses. Here's are two examples:
J is for Jesus-
The best name on earth.
Today we remember
The day of His birth.
Y is for You,
Little girl, little boy,
May your Christmas be merry
And all filled with joy!
What a sweet way to start our Advent.
You know that I can't just do something simple. We are also adding one nativity picture magnet to our Advent calendar. On top of that, I picked an activity for us to do each day. Today's activity was to start a paper prayer chain with the names of our family and friends to put on the Christmas tree.
No Advent is complete without the chocolate Advent calendars. Yummy!!
I hope this plan will help us to Keep Christ In Christmas!
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