tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448148457144512031.post4235398383733883724..comments2024-03-02T02:40:25.651-05:00Comments on Life After Staff: How Are You Keeping Christ In Christmas?Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10761129808268407446noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448148457144512031.post-44626157977982154912010-11-26T16:22:20.627-05:002010-11-26T16:22:20.627-05:00These are some great ideas. I do agree that we ha...These are some great ideas. I do agree that we have to be purposeful. I don't have any fabulous ideas to share at the moment, but I will continue to ponder this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448148457144512031.post-17466970559626455802010-11-23T02:35:37.955-05:002010-11-23T02:35:37.955-05:00I'm so glad you posted about Advent, getting r...I'm so glad you posted about Advent, getting ready for Christ's coming! It is such a good way to keep in mind what Christmas is all about. And it is so great that Ella is learning to have family "voshuns"! I can just picture her saying that. It's so sweet. <br />I'm not sure I agree with keeping the baby Jesus out of the manger til Christmas, but that's your prerogative.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08815105600814299694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448148457144512031.post-53258330991638628862010-11-22T20:26:02.584-05:002010-11-22T20:26:02.584-05:00oops -from Wendy. I didn't mean to be anonymo...oops -from Wendy. I didn't mean to be anonymous!!!Wendy Smithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448148457144512031.post-26420249667542868612010-11-22T20:25:07.660-05:002010-11-22T20:25:07.660-05:00You're so awesome, Sarah! I love this blog po...You're so awesome, Sarah! I love this blog post and I think it is SO overlooked by our present-day, busy, over-scheduled Christian culture. <br /> I LOVE hearing about Ella sitting for devos, b/c this is my PASSION to tell families that they CAN do this!! In hockey families kids grow up going to hockey games. They don't even think about it, it's just what "our family does". The same can be true, and SHOULD be true for family Faith Talk time.<br /> We have several play-friendly nativities, and lots of books. We are not Santa-opposed, but we do not encourage this, do not have our pics done, or decorate w/ Santa stuff, and I have always told my kids that he's not real. <br /> We really encourage giving, (maybe something to implement as she is older), b/c it's a picture of Christ giving to us. Next year, (we've been working up to this), we've requested that the kids not receive gifts for grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc, and we are not giving them gifts. (Although they will get a great stocking!) We're taking the money we would have used on a tree, special snacks, etc, and on Christmas we will sit down and open envelopes of money or money amounts, and make choices of how to spend it, (donate it), for Samaritan's Purse. They know abou this, we've already done something similar w/ birthdays, and we are looking forward to it.<br /> I think you have to be REALLY intentional to not get swept up in the commercialism and busy-ness. Talk continually about the True Meaning while you sit down, while you walk along the way, when you get up and when you get down...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com