In years past, despite our efforts to maintain focus throughout the holiday season, despite whatever plans and preparations we went through, Christmas morning still seemed to come and go without so little as a passing thought of why we were really celebrating. I remember feeling disappointed and spent when it was all through. The flurry and bustle of the gift-giving, discarding the papers and bags, the ribbons and bows, tearing …
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The Advent Event – Sharing Christmas ideas, traditions, tips and more!
Today is the first day of Advent! If you don’t know what Advent is, it’s basically a Catholic tradition which celebrates the coming of Christ as a child and his promised Second Coming – and it runs from roughly after Thanksgiving until the beginning of January. Now, I’m not Catholic. But after being exposed to the tradition of Advent a few years ago, I quickly realized that this is a …