Advent: 8 December

Some days just don't go to plan... This post is a day late as I had to do our weekly on-line food shop and then Caleb decided he wanted some extra night time cuddles! Anyway, here we are now!

Jesse Tree Activity

Thank you for ideas! Ended up doing a painting as we had lots of red paint left over from our lolly stick activity. But I loved the ideas of putting a candle in a jar with tissue paper stuck on and a candle stained glass window. Here's the final masterpiece:

24 Books

Today's book is a lovely one, but I think it's misnamed. In my opinion 'Baby's first Christmas Storybook' is more aimed at toddlers as it contains four stories, including The Nutcracker, and four songs to sing together. It was meant to be Caleb's turn to open the present, but Zoë just couldn't help herself and wanted to help him!

Lolly Sticks

Our lolly stick said 'Decorate biscuits', but we decided to decorated the salt dough stars we made last week. I gave Zoë complete freedom to chose colours; though I really wanted to paint them gold and silver with gold and silver glitter! We've ended up with some beautiful colour combinations:

Jesse Tree Story

We read the well-known story of Moses and the 10 plagues.
"God's people would always remember this great rescue and call it 'Passover'. But an even Greater Rescue was coming. Many years later, God was going to do it again. He was going to come down once more to rescue his people. But this time God was going to set them free forever and ever." (The Jesus Storybook Bible)

Mummy Time

I really needed to start my Christmas cards (with mince pies, hot spiced apple and christmas film), but unfortunately our food shop was more urgent and then Caleb wanted some mummy time. So yet again cards are not done.