Advent Wreath
Well, Germans do not have the correct colored candles for their wreaths. They have all one color for each wreath. So with them being hard to find and our travel plans, I decided to make a portable advent wreath. Here it is!
Each Sunday one family member gets to color a candle in. Daddy did the first one since he won't be here for most of the Sundays. I hung it up on the wall by our tree. Here is Daddy coloring his candle with the girls taking turns coloring the wreath and holly. They did a really good job, especially Genna who is coloring very well for her age compared to what I remember Hannah doing.
Jesse Tree
We are bypassing the super time-consuming real tree with all the ornaments and doing only the Jesse Tree. We are using a small fake pre-lit tree for this. Although the tree is not portable, we are using simple paper ornaments this year (I hope to make some cool creative ones in the future, but this is the way it has to be this year) that we can take with us and we'll figure out what to do with them when we get to my parent's house. Here's the tree!
We put our first ornament on the tree today and did the reading for it during dinner. The kids enjoyed the reading and discussion. Then we did the readings of the day from the Word Among Us followed by reciting the Magnificat. I hope we can be disciplined enough to do this everyday with all that's happening with our family this Advent season.
Baby Jesus' Crib
This we did last year. Again, we can't really take it with us, but it's something we can do up until we leave without missing the point.
St. Nicholas Day
You may have noticed in the picture that we have our presents wrapped and under this tree already. This is because we are opening gifts on St. Nicholas Day since Daddy will be leaving soon. We will read the story of St. Nicholas as a family in the morning. St. Nicholas will bring the kids a few little things for their stockings and then the girls a bigger gift to share. St. Nicholas is going to be visiting the Catholic Church and Kindergarten on that day as well. So, hopefully we can catch him.
Advent Calendar
I am bypassing the cute German Advent calendars (with chocolate inside) this year because they are so big and we couldn't take it with us or finish it before we leave. However, in our village they have an Advent calendar of sorts on various private and public windows around the village. So each night a new window is decorated and the town gathers to have Gluwein and food and celebrate being one day closer to our Savior's birthday! We're not going to go to all of them, but we are going to try to hit the major ones. I'll put a picture up if I can get a good one.
Well, that's it! What are your Advent plans?
1 comment:
It all looks beautiful and reminds me of a few years when we had to celebrate the season according to the necessities of real life. Like the year we moved into our new house four days before Christmas! Yeah. That was a simple year! Have fun and pack all those other ideas away for years to come.
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