I honestly wasn't planning on posting this, but I was so excited by how it turned out -- and how truly simple and easy it was -- that I couldn't resist! We're doing a modified 12 Days of Christmas starting next week (yes, I know it's technically supposed to be after Christmas, but I'm a…
The following post is from Jason & Jennifer Bruce of New Season Design: A Jesse Tree is an advent project. Each day you color an ornament that represents a bit of the lineage of Christ. The tree begins with creation and stretches through the Old and New Testaments until we reach the wonderful story of…
It's been a few years since we've done this, but visiting a nursing home at Christmas time -- to sing carols, hand out cookies and cards or just chat with residents -- is a beautiful tradition and a great way to take your focus off the busyness, to-do lists and stuff that surround the holidays…
Editor's note: I wanted to include a post about live Christmas trees in this series, but we use the same artificial tree year after year, so I'm excited to welcome Amanda of OhAmanda.com and Impress Your Kids -- a Life Your Way contributor and my friend -- to share her family's tradition with you! The…
One of our favorite ways to countdown the days until a special date is with a countdown chain, where you tear off one loop each day, watching the chain get shorter and shorter each day. I've combined that idea with a list of advent activities that you can print out on the back of scrapbook…
Although I wouldn't recommend starting this activity today with 94 days until Christmas, I wanted to share it early to give you plenty of time to get prepared! Unwrapping -- and reading -- a Christmas book every day during Advent is a fun tradition that the whole family will enjoy, but it doesn't have to…