Thursday, December 1, 2011


It's December 1st. We started our Advent celebrations tonight. We've been keeping these traditions since the first Christmas after Norah was born. I remember holding Norah when she was a tiny baby while Dwayne read from our Advent book and from the Bible and we hung the ornaments. Now, Norah is old enough to read the Advent book to us and Avril hung the ornament before we put the girls to bed tonight.
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