Archive for the 'Advent' Category


December Daily: Day 1

I am not sure I will be posting every day in December, but I will try.  I am committed to documenting at least the first 25 days of December in an album I made. It is my first real attempt at scrapbooking, so we will see how it goes.  I have a few pictures from [...]

Musings on God and Community

Today I went to church for the first time in ages.  I have been getting ready for Advent with the choir, but somehow I haven’t been able to get my body out of the house on time for a very long time.  This is even worse when you figure that my service starts at either [...]

Getting Ready for Christmas

I know it is only the 6th of November and we have barely passed Halloween but I have been thinking about Christmas for a while.  This will be the first year that Aidan is really excited about Christmas and we will be celebrating here in Vancouver.  That is not to say that we haven’t celebrated [...]

Second Sunday of Advent

I am trying to start traditions with Aidan that he will cherish when he is older. Ah, who am I kidding, right now they are for me. We started decorating the Christmas tree yesterday and today we had our Advent carol service. I would have done it last week but the snow [...]