Merry Christmas--today we celebrate our Savior's birth! For our final day of advent celebration, we added baby Jesus to our nativity scene and read Sis' favorite Christmas book.Last year, Aunty T gave us a sweet little hand-crafted nativity set. It included two mangers--one empty and one with baby Jesus.
All month, the empty manger has been on display. Last week I started drawing this to the kids' attention. (You can tell by the photos with my scratched, nicked furniture in the background that small children certainly live here.)
Today, Big Brother opened the final box on our advent calendar and found instructions to put baby Jesus in the manger.
Then Big Brother requested that we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus.
After singing, we snuggled up on the couch to read Sis' favorite Christmas book, The Nativity, by Julie Vivas--all before opening gifts. Bless my patient children!
Our advent journey is over for this year. All of these activities with my children have helped me see afresh the truth of God's love for us and the wonder if His plan for redemption. Praise God for his grace and mercy and love. Merry Christmas!
P.S. My sincere apologies for binge-posting today. All caught up now. :)
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