He already knows he will get presents. He loves to help choose the Christmas tree and then come home to decorate it. He is looking forward to helping me bake cookies and make caramels. We will be taking him to see the Nutcracker Ballet for the first time this year. We play Christmas music whenever we have music going. He chose an advent calendar at Trader Joe's (as he has for the last couple of years).
These are all special activities that we reserve for this season alone. But none of them help him to know the true meaning of Christmas.
Our church has provided us with at least one tool to help. They gave out advent devotionals this year. At the beginning of Advent, December 1st, instead of just letting our little man open that day on his advent calendar, we read from the devotional as a family beforehand.
Truthfully, I don't know how much our little man is absorbing of what we read. But I like the idea that we are teaching him the meaning behind having an advent calendar - and that it isn't just a count-down to when he will get to open his presents.
"For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
Isaiah 9:6
In His Grace...
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