Light the Advent Candle Two

Scenes from our busy 2nd Advent weekend

We bound 50 soup cookbooks to sell at the school's Winter Fair.


Helen spent all Friday afternoon decorating the school. I was a proud Mama as I received several phone calls and emails from parents who said they could not have done their work without her. She spent a lot of time designing the Crystal Cookie Cave. It was pretty magical in the dark with twinkling lights, crystals, and sugar cookies.

Here's a little scene from inside the gnome house. Children crawled into this space to view a scene from each of the 4 seasons. On the way out, they could choose their own little gnome to keep.

On Sunday we got out the Christmas decorations. Lou was inspired to make some origami. She created this star.


She also made Christmas cookies for an afternoon tea party where we sat by the fire, admired the decorations, and read about last year in the Christmas journal.

Here's our dining table now--some birds have joined our advent claw/candelabra and our beloved spiral is counting the days to the solstice.

Light the Advent candle two,
think of humble shepherds who,
filled with wonder at the sight,
of the child on Christmas night.

Candle, candle burning bright,
shining in the cold winter night.
Candle, candle burning bright,
fill our hearts with Christmas light.