Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Day Four
Day Four of the Advent Calendar gave us a yummy Christmas treat -- CANDY CANES! The girls loved the sweet candy and got VERY sticky in the process!
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Day Three
Hannah opened up the Advent calendar on Friday to find a paper which read, "Watch a Christmas movie as a family after dinner!" I am sure you heard the squeals of our daughters after we read this one! They were SUPER excited for daddy to get home, eat dinner, make popcorn and watch the movie, but they would have to wait and wait since it was only 10:30 when we opened it -- TORTURE! We watch the Hanna Barbara Nativity movie... it brought back MANY memories of those movies b/c we watched them when I was a little girl. Danny and I both appreciated how they quoted so much Scripture! A great family activity!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Smiley Boy
Right after Josiah has had a good feeding, he is VERY smiley! I can just hear him thinking, "Thank you mommy for that good snack! That was the best! I am warm and ready to snuggle with you. Thanks, mom!"
Advent Calendar -- day 2
Day Two: Color a special Christmas coloring page.
Hannah is starting to say "Baby Jesus" and she can name some of her colors -- just adorable!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
December is here!
Wow... where has the time gone? I can't believe that it is already December... we need to get in full Christmas mode immediately!
Grace, Hannah and I started our Advent Calendar today. It is a wooden calendar that my mom gave me a few years ago. I print off slips of paper with activities on them and the girls and I complete them every day until Christmas. Some of the activities we will do as a family while others will be a special present to open or candy to eat.
Today, Day 1, Grace opened the box and discovered that our activity was to make Popcorn Garland for our tree! We loved doing that last year so I just had to include it again this year. Grace as a BIG help stringing the popcorn (she remembered the particulars about it from last year) and Hannah was a BIG help cleaning up all of the pieces that we dropped (she shoveled them right into her mouth!).
After the string was completed we put it on the tree -- it is beautiful! The girls are anxious for Daddy to see it!
Grace, Hannah and I started our Advent Calendar today. It is a wooden calendar that my mom gave me a few years ago. I print off slips of paper with activities on them and the girls and I complete them every day until Christmas. Some of the activities we will do as a family while others will be a special present to open or candy to eat.
After the string was completed we put it on the tree -- it is beautiful! The girls are anxious for Daddy to see it!
What will the calendar have us do tomorrow?
Monday, November 22, 2010
Thankful
"I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise will CONTINUALLY be in my mouth!"
I just had so much to be thankful for this year... I don't know where to start! When I think about the things I am thankful for, it reminds me of a friend in HS. She had a Happy Book. It was a journal that she wrote in ALL THE TIME. She made a long list of the things that made her happy. Silly things like milk mustaches or flip flops made her list (flip flops are on Bethany's too!). But she also had serious ones too, like salvation, Jesus, and her family.
If I had a happy book, it would have to be a really thick book with many lines in it. I would write and write and write about all that God has done and given. I love the thought from a song that says if all of the oceans were ink and all of the sky was a page, we wouldn't have room to write about all that God has done and all that He is.
Lately, God has been teaching Danny and I all about His goodness to us and the things that He has given. WE ARE SO BLESSED THAT IT IS DISGUSTING! We had drawers full of things that we "might" need and a basement with boxes of Christmas decorations while children around the world are starving and are thirsty. WE ARE TOO BLESSED! WE ARE TOO COMFY! WE ARE SPOILED!
What does this mean... what are we going to do with this conviction? We aren't sure yet. We are thankful, though, that God is still teaching us and we are still listening to Him. We are willing...
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we will BLESS THE LORD and thank HIM for all things for I know I am blessed beyond measure!!!!
I just had so much to be thankful for this year... I don't know where to start! When I think about the things I am thankful for, it reminds me of a friend in HS. She had a Happy Book. It was a journal that she wrote in ALL THE TIME. She made a long list of the things that made her happy. Silly things like milk mustaches or flip flops made her list (flip flops are on Bethany's too!). But she also had serious ones too, like salvation, Jesus, and her family.
If I had a happy book, it would have to be a really thick book with many lines in it. I would write and write and write about all that God has done and given. I love the thought from a song that says if all of the oceans were ink and all of the sky was a page, we wouldn't have room to write about all that God has done and all that He is.
Lately, God has been teaching Danny and I all about His goodness to us and the things that He has given. WE ARE SO BLESSED THAT IT IS DISGUSTING! We had drawers full of things that we "might" need and a basement with boxes of Christmas decorations while children around the world are starving and are thirsty. WE ARE TOO BLESSED! WE ARE TOO COMFY! WE ARE SPOILED!
What does this mean... what are we going to do with this conviction? We aren't sure yet. We are thankful, though, that God is still teaching us and we are still listening to Him. We are willing...
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we will BLESS THE LORD and thank HIM for all things for I know I am blessed beyond measure!!!!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Yahoo! Great Sleeper Boy!
I feel rejuvenated and refreshed this morning! Why? Josiah slept from 10:15-5:15! YAHOO!
Of course, I didn't sleep that WHOLE time: I had to go in at 4:00 and check on him to make sure he was breathing! He did a great job. We will be a little "off schedule" today, but we will make it work. Will this be our new schedule? I can't wait to find out!
Of course, I didn't sleep that WHOLE time: I had to go in at 4:00 and check on him to make sure he was breathing! He did a great job. We will be a little "off schedule" today, but we will make it work. Will this be our new schedule? I can't wait to find out!
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