Laden with stuffing and full of turkey, I lounge as my thoughts now inevitably turn to Advent. Seems a mom can only truly rest from all labor for about 5 seconds before the joyful fullness of life brings on something new to prepare for or work on or at least think about. I did take a nap today, which is a significant, and desperately needed, event for me.

If you search my blog (search box on left side bar) there are some advent resources from last year. Really, the Crawford’s are running on just about empty, fumes actually, so I have little new creative energy and passion to fill new posts for this year. I am going to rely on traditions we have already in place.

Well, that’s what I tell myself so I don’t feel overwhelmed and then once I get going, something new always results. Almost always.

My newest thing lately is to pick a topic from this great book -

which is a catalogue of Bible verses organized under character development topics. Very simply laid out, easy to use with just one or two quick at a glance ideas for activities or ways to communicate the given topic; just the kind of thing the overwhelmed mom needs. So before thanksgiving I picked “respect” and we made a poster with that word at the top. The first day we look up the word in the dictionary and write it under the word. Then each day after as we eat breakfast we add a related Bible verse and review what we have done before. We talk about was to be respectful after reading the Bible verse. I might make up a song for it. Whatever comes to mind. We did the same this week with “thankfulness”.

So that is the extent of my creativity lately, that and the discovery that Hobby Lobby has really cheap easy holiday crafts. I loaded up for $10 bucks and kept us entertained for hours. Why was I so slow to dive into the world of cheap, silly crafts? They are great.

But in truth, I popped on here to share this Anglican Advent website (HT - Michael at the BHT’s “Come to Bethlehem and See“). If I get anything new going for Advent I bet it will be from there.