One of the best parts of Christmas for me, is actually the weeks leading UP to the big day. I LOVE Advent. Advent Calendars (I left mine up until August last year!), Advent wreaths, Advent sermons, and just the whole season of preparing my heart and home for Christmas!
Though we were ready, Advent got off to a rough start here at the Nourse casa. Hannah got croup on November 29. I had to call in sick the next day... and it has been a VERY LONG week ever since! I came down with the flu hard on December 1. It was awful, but brief! Thank God for the support of my parents, who came over in a flash to take care of Hannah, and pack us all up to get to the walk-in clinic like 2 minutes before it closed! I took a magic pill and the puking stopped...though I was very weak and out of it the whole next day, and all I ate was clear soup! Thankfully Micah was home for most of the day!
So, Advent Calendar thus far:
December 1: Listen to your favorite Christmas music. Vince Guaraldi Trio. The Nutcracker is a close second!
December 2: Donate some food to your local food bank. Ok, it's set aside, but we were all sick that day.
December 3: Write a letter to Santa. She actually did that today. We went to the Laguna Hills Community Center for Breakfast with Santa. We kicked it off with pictures with Santa (she totally cried), ate a delicious pancake breakfast with scrambled eggs (her favorite!) and sausage, and then headed out to write a letter to Santa. She did a good job. :)
December 4: Put up some Christmas decorations.
So, many of our decorations are already up. The lights were first. Micah loves putting them up in the dark. On the roof. So dangerous and I pray so hard. This year, Hannah was out with us, and that may be how she got sick. Who knows. We had her all bundled up, but she was bouncing around like crazy in her bouncy swing. (She still loves that thing!)
Anyhow, as we have been cooped up sick in here, the decorations are even more special to see through Hannah's eyes this year. She has loves pointing all of these out to me: the pillow on the door, her Little People Nativity Set (she already knows who Baby Jesus is!), her Christmas tea set, and the Elf on the shelf. She thinks he's hilarious, and when she can get her hands on him, she hides him in various cupboards of her play kitchen. The tree is not up yet. Perhaps tomorrow. We have to take the feet off of the small couch to move it into the front room, so there is room for the Christmas tree in our teeny living room!
And so, that's the beginning of Advent around here!
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