12 Days of Christmas

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Advent is over, Christmas Day has now passed us by.  I think, aside from the bug that is going from child to child, we had a good Christmas Eve/Day.  The kids were happy with their presents.  We’ve indulged in too much good food and drink, now we are enjoying a semi quiet week. We didn’t […]

Celebrating Advent

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I’m taking a break today from adoption posts for National Adoption Month, to start talking Advent.  I’m honored to be teaming up with a fantastic group of faith-filled Catholic bloggers to share the ways we each celebrate Advent in our homes.  Please read to the bottom to see all the fabulous participants.  You will be […]

St. Lucy & The Jesse Tree

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We received plenty of snow over the weekend, just in time for St. Lucy’s Feast Day and our annual “Christmas Lights Tour”.  On Monday night we piled in the car, got hot chocolate, and drove around looking at Christmas lights.  It’s so much more festive when there is snow on the ground! We also started […]

Feast Days Galore

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This is the week for Feasting! St. Nick’s Feast Day ~ December 6th A few more of our Christmas decorations made their way from the basement over the weekend.  We needed to be sure that our stockings were out and ready for St. Nicholas.  I know the tradition is that St. Nick leaves things in […]

Little Star

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Since today is the first Sunday of Advent, I am taking a little break from adoption talk to chat about Christmas.  A few weeks ago I was contacted by an author to take a look at his newest book.  The book is called Little Star written by Anthony DeStefano and illustrated by Mark Elliott. I […]

Christmas Countdown ~ Two Months

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I reviewed the list in my Christmas notebook of things I would like to have completed by Thanksgiving, which is November 25th.    ❧ Christmas cards ready and waiting to be mailed    ❧ St. Nicholas gifts ready (we do our stockings on the Feast of St. Nicholas)    ❧ December birthday gifts purchased    […]

Christmas Notebook, Again

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The Christmas Notebook has been a popular post lately, I am glad to see I am not the only one thinking about Christmas!  I plan to pull out my notebook this weekend and get going on several things:          ❧ Christmas cards – I printed off address labels last night.  I had […]

Christmas Notebook

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Here is my Advent/Christmas notebook.  As I mentioned it is very simple and basic, but it works.  Each year I add or modify it a bit to better fit what we need.   First, I have a list of the gifts we gave last year as well as all the receipts.  I will move this […]