We made gingerbread houses with our neighbors...
We did a Christmas craft...
We walked to Starbucks and got hot cocoa...
We made homemade donuts (this has for some reason become a Christmas tradition, but it is one of my favorites!!)
I can't remember what day this was, but one night is was just warm enough to do a bonfire, so we sat out back with hot cocoa and a fire. It was perfect!
We made Christmas Cookies...
I let the kids decorate about half the batch...
And then I did half and we sent some to Ben's work and some to our teachers/friends...
We had fondue by the fire!
We made a new Christmas decoration...
We went present shopping for each other (Lucy bought for Hank, Hank bought for June and June bought for Lucy). We happened to see Santa at Walmart too! What are the odds! :)
We have also been incorporating reading an advent Bible story along with our activities. Sometimes it feels like to much and maybe all these activities are making us miss the point a little, but I'm not totally sure. For now, I'm looking at the activities as a way for us to fit in all the fun parts of Christmas that we like to do anyway, but also giving us built in family time and built in time to focus on Jesus.
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