That Phase
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Friday, December 2, 2011
December 2
I let the girls get out the Christmas decorations last Saturday while I was at work. They did a great job with the snowmen and even remembered blankets and throw pillows, but I think that they were scared to touch my nativities! Today we will remember the REASON for the SEASON and get out all of our Nativities and watch a movie about the Saviors Birth. We usually do this much closer to Christmas, but I have wanted to do it earlier to set the tone for the rest of the holiday season.
What do you do to make sure you are focusing on the true reason for the season during December?
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I LOVE my collection of Nativities. They really do help to focus the reason for all the other madness. I miss your house at Christmas time. Heck, I just miss you house.
A couple years ago I convinced Ryan (not too hard...he hates TV) to carry the TV to the garage. One of the nativities goes up in it's place shortly after Thanksgiving and the TV does not return until after Christmas. We do have a small TV now too...so an occasional movie is still viewed, but it does set a completely different tone in the home. We read all our Christmas books too. Last year we read the book The Last Straw together and loved it. So we started with it on the first Dec Family night and this year we got out a gold box and are filling it will little papers of good or kind things we do...Making someones bed, cleaning our room, etc. This gold box is going to be filled with our gifts to baby Jesus and we will read them all on Christmas. So many helpful things have been happening...it is awesome!
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