I am determined to celebrate this Christmas in a memorable, enjoyable, unstressed way this year. As far as I know, we’ll be in this house through the month of December, so we can do the fun, traditional things we do for Christmas every year, except last year, including Advent readings and candles and making shaped Christmas cookies and lots of other cookies, watching our favorite Christmas movies and reading our favorite Christmas stories. I have a few new things that we’ve never tried before. I went all out and ordered The Advent Book Heirloom Edition from Jack and Kathy Stockman this year – here is their website. I’m hoping it will get here before December 1st.
(If you want to know more about our interrupted Christmas last year, read my posts from December 2010. It’s quite a story!)
I’ve been listening to some audios from the Ultimate Homeschool Expo Fall/Christmas edition to help stir up excitement and ideas for how to make this Christmas season extra special and keep it Christ-centered.
If you need some stirring and ideas, too, get your own ticket for the expo here:
http://mediaangels.com/tickets/ufe/penneymarie
And get access to more speakers and workshops than you’ll be able to get through before Christmas. The price is still very low, and it’s a 2-year set, so it’s a great bargain. Get your ticket now before the price goes up. Right now it’s still $19.97. Believe me, with all the audios and resources included, this is a bargain!
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
