Through Thanksgiving and now into the Christmas season, we are SO grateful for our health!
We are busy with the remote-learning routine and watching Christmas movies.
Advent season has begun! Typically we would hear stories of faith and tradition each Sunday at church and the Advent candles would be lit. This year, our Children's Ministries council provided an Advent kit for families to light candles at home. It included a wooden base, tea lights, conversation starters, and scriptures for each Sunday. Tyler gets so excited to light the candles with the "fire gun" before dinner and we pray. It's become a really sweet dinnertime tradition that we now plan to do each year.
Yesterday was a BIG day in our house. In just the last couple of days, Lily's tooth received an eviction
notice. It fell out yesterday during her Kindergarten zoom!
Her sweet teacher dropped off a lost tooth certificate and sticker. The tooth fairy brought a sparkly $2 bill-yay! (We think that the tooth fairy and our elves are friends.)
Our home classroom has some festive holiday flair. Christmas sloths, a nativity, our leg lamp, and banner.
We enrolled Lily back into school when in-person hybrid was to start first week of November, which was cancelled, sadly. We stuck with remote so she could build on the curriculum with the hopes of returning to in-person. Her teacher is working incredibly hard and navigating 20+ kinder kiddos and distanced-learning. They love her.
Lily and I have developed a co-working space. I'm grateful to be home with the kiddos, especially her, to make sure they are on task. I love that we will have these memories to reflect upon years from now.
After school, we clear the table and we've been wrapping presents for our "Angel Kids". Each year our church has an angel tree to give children on a Native American reservation in Sisseton, South Dakota. Our 3 kiddos help pick out presents for kids their own age and use the wish lists they provide. It typically includes warm clothing and blankets. One child didn't ask for anything but those items. It's a wonderful ministry that our church provides and has taught our kids to be grateful for the simple warmth of a coat and a warm bed.
There is joy in the gifting too. Church volunteers drive all the gifts to Sisseton before Christmas. When I asked the coordinator if there would be room to transport a sled that one kiddo requested, she said "Get it. God will find a way for it to happen."<heart swell>
As 2020 nears it's end, we probably all have things we want to see change or improve-work, school, health, relationships, etc. "God will find a way to make it happen".
Maybe not in the way we envisioned, but the way He knows it should be. Happy Holidays!
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