tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805504101401683454.post3698699619507010958..comments2015-01-18T11:31:47.787-06:00Comments on Keeping Up with the Cases: Achy Joints and AnticipationChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11154692504751436022noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805504101401683454.post-11595103312446416162008-12-03T08:22:00.000-06:002008-12-03T08:22:00.000-06:00Hurrah for good advent calendars! Rebecca and Cale...Hurrah for good advent calendars! Rebecca and Caleb purchased a very similar one a few years back. Caleb painted 25 tiny wooden balls with their respective advent symbols and they hang them on the tree each day. <BR/><BR/>This year I participated in a Jesse Tree exchange. 25 women collaborate, each of them making 25 ornaments of one of the symbols of advent (I made 25 brick wall ornaments). Then, we have a November Christmas party and exchange. I went with 25 brick walls, and came home with 25 different ornaments, each for one day of advent. (it was fun to see how everyone interpreted their ornament!)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, we have a little tree in Oliver's room, and every night we bring out the night's ornament and talk about it, do a reading and a song or two. So far, we've done an ornament made to look like the earth, and one that's shaped like an apple with a snake wrapped around it. <BR/><BR/>If it's not too late, I'd love to suggest "Christmas Spirit: The Joyous Stories, Carols, Feasts, and Traditions of the Season" by Greg Wilbur & George Grant (our chief musician and our pastor). It would be right up the Case Family Alley! You can get it at our church, or on Amazon for $9 or so. <BR/><BR/>Sorry for my long comment! I love what you're doing with your family, starting when they're little, to teach them about Advent and the anticipation of the birth of Christ. <BR/><BR/>*kisses*Raechelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749957283761850800noreply@blogger.com