Nicholas, St. Nicholas, come to us today, Ride upon your white horse from far, far away. Bring us golden treasure, Fill our hearts with love, Ready for the Christ Child coming from above. Nicholas, St. Nicholas, come to us today, Ride upon your white horse from far, far away.
Good Day Friends!
Saint Nicholas just finished visiting our house today. Addy, our advent gnome, has been helping us the past 2 days to get ready for him. On the 2nd day of advent we made cookies for him and his white horse. On the 3rd day we made letters for him as well as prepared our shoes for him and set them outside.
I know that the 6th is traditionally Saint Nicholas' feast day, but the children will be with their father on the 6th and they were worried he would miss their house since they weren't home. I informed them to fear not, that he'd come a few days early this year.
This year Saint Nicholas brought them all their oranges, gold coins, and sweets. They also got a small wooden pet toy set- a kitty, a rabbit, and a dog. Each pet came with a little food dish and house. Their pets are going to live in their farm house.
Here are our celebrations from years past:
2012:
I did not blog it but here are our photos of it!
So here are some photos of our past few days and advent fun. Most of our fun times are had at night after I get off work, so apologize for the poor photos. But that is the reality for the full time working mom gig I suppose. I don't mind however. Life is good. It is calm and seeped in love. Now more than ever I get to focus on quality versus quantity. And the few hours we have work and school free each day are definitely quality ridden. I just cannot get over how amazing keeping our Waldorf rhythm has been through this life transition. I am just a blessed lady.
As we adjust and slow down more and more, I am able to add back in things into our lives that we had to set to the side. One of those things being more planned craft time. Most of our craft time has been free form based around our artelier using loose parts. I'd like to bring back our water color day, our wax day, and our bread day- after work. I also have more time with the children on the weekends, so I want to plan more day trips.
But for now, this is beautiful and bright.
May the patron saint of sailors and children shine God's love and light upon you!
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| Day 2 |
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| Cookie baking! Sometimes I don't have time to change our of my colonial clothes before we do craft and dinner time! |
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| Day 3 |
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| Writing letters |
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| Finding their shoes filled! |
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| They we're so excited!! |
Thanks for the post, I enjoy the inspiration..... I am new to waldorf, but we are doing our best to creating and transition into a waldorf lifestyle and rhythm..... The toy department we are good, but the keeping rhythm I am having troubles.... I am one of those people that does and plans too much, and trying to find balance and keeping everyone happy (n terms of in-laws, extended family, friends etc). Curious, any books that changed your life (via Waldorf etc) that you recommend? and why? Also, Advent is new to me.... How would you suggest incorporating it with a 2.5 year old? I know we are a tad late, since it started already, but figured better late than not at all ;)
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Such sweetness!! I adore seeing you in your "work clothes" hee, hee. We need to make a trip back to VA to see you in action. XOXO
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