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Today marks the second week of Advent already! So we lit our second candle. I love having the candles lit at dinner. The boys really enjoy it too and it has turned into a bit of a science experiment with our oldest as he has been so curious about the candles burning down and getting…

Today was the day to decorate our Christmas tree! I know we should wait until Advent is done, but we wanted to enjoy it now and we will try to keep it up until the beginning of January. It always makes me sad to see trees waiting for the garbage truck a day after Christmas.…

My kids were more excited to see what St. Nick brought them this morning then they were about our Advent activity. Do you celebrate St. Nick at your house? It’s something I grew up with and apparently only certain areas of the country celebrate because of the people that settled in those areas from Europe.…

Fun day today! The boys loved our Advent activities – writing letters to Santa and actually CALLING Santa and leaving him a message as to what they would like him to bring for Christmas! So cute. I had to throw in a little reminder as to why we actually give presents at Christmas time. Our…

It’s day 4 and my boys were excited to see what our activity was. The main activity we did today was sing Christmas songs together. The kids love to play some of my instruments with me and sing. Andrew requested “that reindeer song with the nose”. lol We also had fun painting our ornaments that…