Anglican Advent Traditions Carnival is OPEN!

Carnival of
Anglican Advent Traditions
is OPEN!

Anglican or not, you’ll enjoy the Carnival!
Please ad your Advent traditions or ideas in the comments.

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Anglican Advent Traditions Carnival is OPEN!

Carnival of
Anglican Advent Traditions
is OPEN!

Anglican or not, you’ll enjoy the Carnival!
Please ad your Advent traditions or ideas in the comments.

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Carnival of Anglican Advent Traditions

Do you desire to make your Christmas preparations and celebrations more Christ-centered?

Curious about how a full observance of Advent can lead to a more joyous Christmas celebration?

Would you like to find out how others approach the season of Advent?

Join us TOMORROW, Wednesday, November 28th when Jeanne from At A Hen’s Pace will host a blog [...]

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Keeping Advent in 5 parts

Welcome! Please grab a cup of coffee, tea or apple cider and come see how our family “keeps” Advent. Come on in and let me give you a tour!
I hope you’ll be encouraged and inspired to make your Advent season special in your own home. Please leave a comment! I’d love to hear from you!
Part [...]

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Part 1 – Keeping Advent

The FoyerThe foyer sets the “tone” for your home. During Advent the tone in our home is “quiet preparation and hopeful anticipation”. Would you like to read more about the season of Advent?
Our tradition, developed over a few years of being totally overwhelmed by homeschooling, is to put out a few special bits of the [...]

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Part 2 – Keeping Advent

The Family RoomCouches are for reading: in lieu of a traditional nightly Advent Wreath devotion, we will return to a book we enjoyed as a family a few years ago: Jotham’s Journey. It is a gentle and serious story set in biblical times. Jotham is a young boy who ends up meeting the Christ Child. [...]

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Part 3 – Keeping Advent

The Kitchen TableThe kitchen table is a very busy place in our house. This is where we do most of our “lessons”, our craft projects, and our food preparations.
Lessons: During the holidays, we operate on what I call “Holiday School”. It is quite a bit like “unschooling”, but with a holiday theme. All our activities [...]

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Part 4 – Keeping Advent

The Family CalendarThe Advent Season is filled with delightful mini-celebrations that ease our anticipation and kindle our devotion. However, to celebrate or observe every one would be a burden for us. So, we have carefully chosen a few that have particular meaning for us.
The Advent Season is preceded almost directly by St. Andrew the Apostle’s [...]

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Part 5 – Keeping Advent

The Laundry RoomA wonderful Scandinavian tradition is to do a “spring” cleaning before Christmas – An Advent Cleaning. With 3 kids “helping” (and making more messes along the way), this can be a monumental task. But, I love having a clean and organized house before the Christmas mayhem of guests, gifts and gluttony. So, we’ll [...]

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Carnival of Anglican Advent Traditions

Do you desire to make your Christmas preparations and celebrations more Christ-centered?

Curious about how a full observance of Advent can lead to a more joyous Christmas celebration?

Would you like to find out how others approach the season of Advent?

Join us TOMORROW, Wednesday, November 28th when Jeanne from At A Hen’s Pace will host a blog [...]

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