An Advent Blessing-Snow!

Today we had or 3rd snow of the season.  It is just so nice to have snow on the ground during Advent.  My preparations for the coming of our Lord's birthday have been going really well.  I am very busy of course but in a good way.  We have a couple of traditions that we do each year that help with preparing for the Christmas Season.  First we have the Advent wreath, we have an elf that visits us each year to report about the children to St. Nicholas, we do activities on an advent calendar, we do the Advent Adventures with Holy Heroes (www.holyheroes.com) and new this year we are making Jessie tree ornaments.  On Christmas day each child recieves 3 gifts (as Jesus did) and Santa brings each child one.  Santa also fills their stockings with little things.  After opening gifts we have a nice breakfast and then play until our dinner of ham, etc...  May God bless you this Advent Season and this Christmas!