Monday, December 3, 2007
Holiday Open House 2007
For those of you who haven't been by Tiany's blog lately. She is hosting a Holiday Open House for 2007. It is open to anyone, homeschoolers, non-homeschoolers. All you have to do is... Share a post about Christmas or Thanksgiving in your home, as elaborate as you like with pictures or without. If you are new to Homeschool Open House you can view the original carnival HERE.
I am adding my Christmas Wishes. ...
The reason I say Christmas Wishes is that we have not 'accomplished' them just yet. This week I pray we can pull this all together. STAY TUNED FOR PICTURES GALORE!!!
Tonight (Dec 3rd) we will finish preparing our Advent wreath. I have taken a small amount of Hay (with these rib-be horses I can't afford to take much from them) and I have tied it together to make a circle. Then we cut out leaf shapes from our Salt dough and shaped them over the hay. We are now cooking them to harden them. Tonight we will paint them and glue them in place. We will enjoy singing Deck the halls as we assemble our wreath. We will then read from Jotham’s Journey and light our Candle of Hope again. Before retiring for the night we will hang all of our wreaths in the windows of our home and light our battery operated candles.
And remember if you would like to join us just stop by and post a comment at Tiany's blog “Less Of Me ~ More Of Him” The open house starts on Monday December 3rd and will run through Monday December 10th. She has writen a few questions that you may want to use to post a 'seasonal' message on your blog. .....
IF you are doing a Thanksgiving post, you can share what you did, share some pics, what crafts or projects did you do with the children. Did you incorporate any activities or traditions centered around our Lord?
How do you keep Christ in Christmas?
Share some fun things you do with your family, traditions, is there a new tradition you want to start?
Share fun activities, projects, crafts, unit studies or websites you might incorporate into your homeschool/home.
Gifts~ Share gifts that you will be making, gifts from your kitchen, gifts that you have sewn., frugal ideas etc…
Mister Linky will be up on the 3rd, on Tiany's blog, when you link to mister Linky you must link directly to your Open House post. I have had ladies linking that are not participating and it becomes too difficult to find your post.
Hope to see some of you join us. It will be great fun.
Tomorrow we will enjoy a day of cookie baking. We have adopted the peppermint cookie recipe from Proverbs Family and the Spritz Cookie recipe from 2 Peas in a pod. Then of course we will be making the famous Sugar cut out cookies we make each year. We are looking forward to sharing this time new friends from our Horse Riding Lessons. We will then attend lessons in the evening and share our homemade cookies and Hot Chocolate Cocoa Mix from Susan Branch. Oh how I love her website, recipes, EVERYTHING. Once we get home we will read day four of Jotham’s Journey and retire to our warm cozy beds.
Wednesday I have set aside to make Christmas-Cards-a-plenty. We will be using some photo’s I took from our past Christmas seasons and making cards to share with family and friends. We will also be packaging some up for our local elderly residents. It has been on our hearts to share the love of the Lord with them so we are making cards and ornaments to share.
You can also read my other post about some of our newest traditions.
This is just the beginning of our Season of Blessing so be sure to stop by again soon to see the pictures and other ideas we have come up with.
* Share a Blessing!
Monday, December 3, 2007 - friends
Posted by jodalton
Thank you Cindy for reading my first ever blog. I would love to add you to my friends list, but I don't know how! Any suggestions?
Permanent Link
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - Holiday Open House 2007
Posted by Anonymous
Love your blog!!! :-)
Angela
www.angelamthomas.blogspot.com
www.homeschoolblogger.com/thomasjaz1999
Permanent Link
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
I can't wait to see the Advent wreath pictures. Have a blessed week and thanks for sharing.
~Trina
http://daddyschicks.blogspot.com
Permanent Link
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
Hello Cindy!!! Thank you so much for your post! you won a Magazine from "There is no place like home!"
Please send me your address when you get a chance so we can have it mailed out to you!!
You can email me at tiany@cox.net
I pray you will have a very blessed and Merry Christmas!!!
Permanent Link
