Comments on: Our Advent Traditions. https://inhonorofdesign.com/2017/12/our-advent-traditions/ Home Renovation & Design Blog Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:08:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Anna Liesemeyer https://inhonorofdesign.com/2017/12/our-advent-traditions/#comment-2318524 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:03:52 +0000 http://inhonorofdesign.com/?p=15600#comment-2318524 In reply to Ashley.

Wow this is so profound! Children have this beautiful ability to make Christmas real for us who have gotten weary or may need some renewal. I love that verse tradition so much and it is motivating me to try it. Thank you Ashley!

]]> By: Anna Liesemeyer https://inhonorofdesign.com/2017/12/our-advent-traditions/#comment-2318522 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:58:39 +0000 http://inhonorofdesign.com/?p=15600#comment-2318522 In reply to Laura.

Thank you for reading Laura! x

]]> By: Laura https://inhonorofdesign.com/2017/12/our-advent-traditions/#comment-2318276 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:55:06 +0000 http://inhonorofdesign.com/?p=15600#comment-2318276 Anna, I love the idea of the Advent cards with the verse on the back, It’s a beautiful reminder of the Christmas season. Thanks for sharing 🙂

]]> By: Ashley https://inhonorofdesign.com/2017/12/our-advent-traditions/#comment-2318116 Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:14:28 +0000 http://inhonorofdesign.com/?p=15600#comment-2318116 I came across this idea this year and we are going to try...a shepherd's dinner under the tree inn Christmas Eve. A simple meal of finger foods and maybe soup and then you can read or have everyone memorize verses of Luke 2 and say it at the supper. I told the kids my idea and challenged them to memorie the 20 verses splitting it up among the 5 of us who can talk :) I just came across this idea a few days ago so I said I knew it didn't slow much time. Our 8 year old knocked my socks off and started reciting verses 8-20 nearly perfectly like he was a shepherd there that night! I couldn't believe it! They had memorized it as a surprise. You see this is one of those "Christmas" for me where things are more hit or miss because of first trimester sickness with baby 5. God is so gracious to meet us in our weakness as Mamas and to use our feable efforts to point our children to the great news which is for all people!]]> These are beautiful pictures and memories shared! These are the exact traditions we have done with the exception of a Jesse tree a few years (which the littles thought was fun! I agree that some years things don’t happen everyday or exactly right on the first day of Advent. Our Christmases’ aren’t perfect or ideal each year much like the first Christmas. And that’s OK. A few things. I read through
some comments and yes, you must check out
Jotham’s Journey and that series. We are on the throes book this year and our children love them. My oldest was 7 when we started and we just read them with the older two and this year have added in our third born who is 5. The readings from the story can be intense so just keep in mind. Also last year I bought the Christmas miracle of Jonathan Toomey for their new picture book and loved it. You can actually find the audio of it for free online so your kids could listen to it now 🙂 I did my son’s class party last year at school and they listened while they waited for the bus at the end of the party and they loved it. The movie is great too ❤️ I came across this idea this year and we are going to try…a shepherd’s dinner under the tree inn Christmas Eve. A simple meal of finger foods and maybe soup and then you can read or have everyone memorize verses of Luke 2 and say it at the supper. I told the kids my idea and challenged them to memorie the 20 verses splitting it up among the 5 of us who can talk 🙂 I just came across this idea a few days ago so I said I knew it didn’t slow much time. Our 8 year old knocked my socks off and started reciting verses 8-20 nearly perfectly like he was a shepherd there that night! I couldn’t believe it! They had memorized it as a surprise. You see this is one of those “Christmas” for me where things are more hit or miss because of first trimester sickness with baby 5. God is so gracious to meet us in our weakness as Mamas and to use our feable efforts to point our children to the great news which is for all people!

]]> By: Bjorg Gunnarsdóttir https://inhonorofdesign.com/2017/12/our-advent-traditions/#comment-2317845 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:07:48 +0000 http://inhonorofdesign.com/?p=15600#comment-2317845 Beautiful christmas decorations!

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]]> By: AnneMarie https://inhonorofdesign.com/2017/12/our-advent-traditions/#comment-2317448 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:01:25 +0000 http://inhonorofdesign.com/?p=15600#comment-2317448 These are such neat ideas!!! I think I’m totally going to use your idea of making special crafts on Sundays-what a cool way to get those crafts done and practice Sunday leisure! I love Advent & Christmas, and I like to say that our biggest tradition around this time is flexibility, because in our 4 1/2 years of marriage, we’ve spent this season in different states, different homes, and with different schedules from one year to the next. So the specifics of what we do when always changes, and some years we try new things (there was one year when we participated in 1 night of the Las Posadas celebration with a local order of Hispanic religious sisters). A pretty big constant for us though is that each year at the beginning of Advent, we set up our shepherds and empty manger in one place, and then set up Joseph and Mary with a donkey further away. Throughout Advent, we slowly move the Holy Family closer and closer to the manger, and on Christmas Eve they arrive at the manger and we put Jesus out. It’s a pretty fun way to see and think about the journey of Advent, and it’s something I grew up doing so it’s fun to continue this small tradition on my own family now 🙂

]]> By: Anna Liesemeyer https://inhonorofdesign.com/2017/12/our-advent-traditions/#comment-2317355 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:50:14 +0000 http://inhonorofdesign.com/?p=15600#comment-2317355 In reply to Janice.

I appreciate those recommendations so much! I look forward to checking them out:) I look forward to adding a book to our stack every year. Have a wonderful Christmas season!

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