Monday, December 17, 2012

Snow

I like snow a lot. It is fun to play in. Last year we built an igloo. I want to make another one this year. Today we had the first snow! (It is Monday, December 17, 2012.) I like to go sledding down our driveway. I also want to build a snowman this year. I can't wait for Christmas! Except that I can. I think snow represents Christmas. It always comes at Christmas time!

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Winter Advents

I love winter. It is the time of Christ's birth. It is my favorite time of year. I like decorating the tree together and going Christmas shopping and picking out things that we think our siblings would like. Opal got to put the star on the tree this year. We have a thousand advents. First, the chocolate calendars. Then we have the socks. When its our turn we pick a sock and open it. There is always a candy inside. Sometimes it is two. Then we have the tree. When it is our turn, each morning we light the tree. And we have the calendar. A long time ago, Mama made a cloth calendar. In the first pocket, there is always the star of Bethlehem. The last one is Baby Jesus. And last we have advent. Each morning at devotions, if its our turn we light a candle. We let it burn for the rest of devotions until it is prayer time, then the person who lit it, will blow it out.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Christmas

I love Christmas. It is my favorite time of year. We always have a nativity cake with the nativity people made out of chocolate. My favorite part of Christmas is mama waking us up and having us all meet in the living room reading Jesus' birth. Every year mama makes all of us matching  Christmas jammies. Cousins and Grandma and Grandpa  always come. I love opening the presents in my stocking. There is always candy. I can never think of what I want for Christmas when someone asks me what I want, but then on Christmas morning, I open a present and say, ''this is exactly what I wanted!' Nonnie and Poppie come on Skype. We always open the presents in the stockings first. I also love our Christmas tree.