Christmas Traditions: The Advent Calendar

As a child I was always filled with excitement in opening the numbered flaps on our Advent calendar. For anyone who doesn’t know what an Advent calendar is, it’s a special way to count the days of Advent. Advent, which means “arrival,” is a fitting description for this season of waiting and anticipating Jesus. The…

Christmas Traditions: At the Christmas Tree Farm

I told my husband I was going to write a post on a Christmas tradition in our family, and he jokingly said I needed to write about having a baby every Christmas. I did have a daughter in 2016 three days before Christmas, and I am pregnant now with another baby due very soon after…