Merry Belated (but not really) Christmas!!

St Nicholas

Happy Feast Day to you all.  The St. Nicholas Center has some great ideas to help celebrate today, so go check your shoes for chocolates and what-not and have a great day!

Happy Birthday GG!

We all love you and miss you much. Happy day to you!!

Poetry Friday

Back to our regularly scheduled program:

Anticipation

Lots of waiting and anticipation goin' on around here in the new digs.  Waiting for our furniture that was in storage to be delivered, waiting for painters, waiting to get motivated to unpack our household (for the 427th 9th time), waiting for my sore back to heal (I should have been reminded that I'm not as strong at 39 as I was at 19--what up wit dat??!!?), waiting for..(you name it....)  But most importantly waiting and anticipating the birth of Our Lord and Savior.   

We've been adding more activities to our Advent.  We have various Advent calendars all about the house.  We've got our Advent wreath which we light at dinner and while reading Bartholomew's Passage (the second book in the Advent Trilogy by Arnold Ytreeide).  The kids have been begging me to "Find Jesus' bed Mommy!" so they can add straw to it with each good deed done in order to provide Baby Jesus with a nice soft bed come Christmas Day when we place the Christ Child in it.  Aaand, I'm planning to dig out our Jesse Tree from the boxes that surround us so we can add our ornaments daily.  

St. Nicholas' Feast Day is coming up Saturday!  I had hoped to make some of these.  Buut we've still got to clean out the old house and our storage unit, so pfffffttt!-- phoey.  Monday brings about the Immaculate Conception and the 12th is Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe ....  so much richness in this season to embrace.  I hope to share some of our activities here.  But for now, I guess I'd better get offa here and get crackin'!  Blessed Advent to you all.

Jotham's Journey

Before the movers pry away my keyboard.. gotta hurry... they're on the way.... I thought I'd share one of our favorite books for Advent.   Jotham's Journey  (click on the purple writing for a quick review) is a great read for the family.  It can be a bit intense for littles-- depending on how sensitive they are, but mine have all enjoyed it (we're on our third time reading it).  It's the first book in a series of three by Arnold Ytreeide, but I think at this time only Jotham's Journey is in print.  

Uh oh.. here come the big burly dudes... better run. 

See ya! 

Because doesn't everyone need a little chuckle in their day?

Oh, and also because this is something that would sooo-oo happen to me..