With temperatures dropping around the world (but not Germany...at least, not yet), here is a great recipe for some homemade chocolate that is rich and creamy! My husband came across this recipe for hot cocoa and loved it so much that it went out in our Christmas Letter a few years ago 🙂 There is… Continue reading Ben’s Hot Cocoa
Christmas seems to be getting a tough break these days. Certainly not in the marketing nor commercials aspect, but in a historic Christian aspect. (I probably lost folks just in that statement alone) Some of you may be wondering "why do these Bible thumpers keep harping on putting Christ in Christmas?!!" That's a decent question… Continue reading What Think Ye of Christmas
Merry Christmas and welcome to my home tour! The tree is trimmed and Christmas has come to our home!! We tend towards the simple and minimalist approach in our home, mostly due to moving around so much with Uncle Sam. This is one of the reasons I love the Nester's motto "it doesn't have to… Continue reading The Tree is Trimmed 2014
Do you guys have Christmas traditions? I am sure you do, as do we all, be it big or be it small, kick them off, just have a ball! Our newest tradition (or the tradition we will maintain while in Germany) is that we set out a Kinder Santa the day after Thanksgiving to… Continue reading Christmas Traditions
Earlier this month, we participated in a Homeschool Christmas Party! Germany has forbidden homeschooling in their country, but an 'International agreement' allows for us to continue to homeschool. There are several homeschool groups and coops in our area, which is so very helpful!! For our party, we volunteered to be part of the set-up crew and… Continue reading Homeschool Christmas Party
Wish my pups had been this well trained, but knowing my family's love of Christmas, it would only have been a matter of time 😉 http://youtu.be/AUtPKbMwnRo
There are actually several versions of the Advent Calendar. You can hunt the web for the various 'orders of worship' that exist for the Advent season. We chose to do love for our second week. I am reaching back in to the archives for our L-O-V-E pictures that never went out from 2007! [wc_row][wc_column size="one-half"… Continue reading Advent: Love
