It's Christmas time! And we are excited! Growing up, Jason and I both had special Christmas traditions we observed each year with our family. This year, we are getting to think about what traditions we will establish with our family! We're considering this a "practice" year because Amos is so young that he won't remember anything! However, Grammie has already taken care of his first ornament!
One tradition we definitely are making part of Christmas is the observation of advent! I have advent candles set out and created this advent calendar (patterns can be found here) for our family! The idea came out of Noel Piper's Treasuring God in your Traditions. Each day as a family, we read a new segment of the Christmas story and add a character to the scene! It is very repetitive so once Amos gets older, we can memorize scripture along with it!
We decided to carry on my families tradition of picking out a live Christmas tree for our home! Jason and I decorated it this year, but I think we'll have a little helper next year! Amos is already mesmerized by it!
Amos' favorite thing to do with his ornament was chew on it! That shouldn't surprise me!
This year we are going to spend with our families, but next year, I think we will spend Christmas morning at home and start some more new traditions!
