Each year we do Advent Pockets that I made a few years ago so that instead of just counting down until Christmas with chocolate calendars every day we have an activity to do as a family - from reading Christmas books, to making gingerbread houses, etc. This year I added an extra to each pocket - the characteristics of Jesus. So as we count down to His birthday we learn a little about him each day. I got the idea of His characteristics from the Milk & Cookies blog. Each one also has a Scripture verse which the kids look up and it tells more about Jesus. So far we've learned that Jesus is humble, forgiving and charitable and we've read a Christmas story, made hot chocolate and wrote letters to Santa.
Even though the kids know that Santa is just pretend, they do know the story of how he came about and think that it's a lot of fun to play along - even Emma - and so tonight there were letters to be written and mailed. Canada Post does a great job here of writing personal notes back to each kids, so they're really looking forward to hearing back from him.
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