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Happy December everyone! I can't believe how quickly the year has gone by. We here in the Smith household are super excited for Christmas. What about you and your family? Feeling excited yet? Traditions are an important element of any well-celebrated holiday season. We have a number of them, but my favourite is our advent calendar. Every day from December 1st to December 25th, we do something Christmas related. Baking cookies, watching a Christmas movie, singing carols. It's a month long celebration of everything Christmas. My wife works hard picking and organizing these activities. She even gets to practice some creativity with a bit of poetry each day for our daughter to read. If it wasn't for her, this tradition wouldn't happen. Thanks hun! For our first day of the calendar, here's what our daughter found: "Today, as we begin our month long adventures, let's share the meaning of Christmas with others, by giving cans to sisters and brothers." For our first day of the advent calendar, we all buckled into the car and drove over to the dollar store. Our daughter selected a bunch of canned food items, brought them up to the counter, and handed the money over to the cashier. We'll be bringing these items to the church later this week to donate to a local food bank.
The advent calendar is a favourite of mine for the moments it generates. For instance, as we were entering the store today, our daughter asked if she could pick out a toy. It took us only a minute to explain how we were there not to buy toys, but to buy food for people who didn't have any. By the time we entered the store, our daughter knew why we were there, what we were going to do, and why it was important. As an early lesson in generosity, I think it was pretty successful. Can't wait to see what this week will bring. What sort of traditions does your family have? I'd love to know! Until next time.
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AuthorMy name is Kevin. I'm a husband, a dad and a historian, in that order. Archives
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