Do you know what Advent is? It officially begins this coming Sunday, November 29. Advent is the season of waiting for Christmas. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve, but some people celebrate it just from December 1 to 24. No matter when you observe it, Advent is a time […]
Looking for Bilingual Readers to Translate the Jesse Tree Devotional
My Jesse Tree Devotional has now been downloaded over 18,500 times. It continues to spread across the internet, even though a third of Advent has already passed. In the last 5 days, it has been downloaded over 2,000 times. I am amazed and humbled and excited to be a part of something that is able […]
Jesse Tree FAQ
Advent starts this weekend – Saturday or Sunday depending on whether you follow the December 1-24 plan or the 4 Sundays before Christmas plan. I follow whichever plan gives me more days for my Jesse Tree. I have been bugging Joe to dig out my Jesse Tree and Cookie from the basement, but he hasn’t […]
Ignoring the Fracas
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. I’m not sure where it went wrong. We have a routine. Every night, we sit down for dinner as a family. We light the candles in our Advent wreath. I get out the day’s ornament for the Jesse tree, and I find the reading […]
Our Christmas Traditions
In honor of the beginning of Advent (which was yesterday for my family), I am posting kid-friendly Christmas traditions all week this week. I love traditions. I love predictability, knowing exactly how things are going to work. It’s just my personality. When Grace was born, Joe and I began traditions for our little family. I […]
10 Ways to Celebrate the Advent
Advent, the month immediately preceding Christmas, is a time of happiness, celebration, and hopeful anticipation of the birth of Jesus Christ. There’s a lot of evidence that He wasn’t actually born in December, but that’s when we celebrate it, so let’s not debate about the timing, okay? Our Advent festivities begin on the fourth Sunday […]
