Comments on Holy Clutter: Advent vs. Christmas

Oh, good idea on the origami!

2009-11-16T21:00:42.061-08:00

Oh, good idea on the origami!

You could play up the excitement of preparing for ...

2009-11-16T18:19:23.891-08:00

You could play up the excitement of preparing for Christmas by working on folding a special origami ornament every day of Advent.

Personally, I think giving up sugar would be much harder than meat.

I think you were very brave to give up meat! We co...

2009-11-14T18:24:31.671-08:00

I think you were very brave to give up meat! We could not do that, but an even greater sacrifice for us would be to give up carbs. (And probably impossible, during December, anyway.)

I have an idea of what we are giving up, but I will wait till next week to tell you : )

Today we realized that the tree question has answered itself! The little one is still pulling up on everything within reach. A tree full of ornaments is out of the question. So, we will put up our tree the day before Christmas and decorate with white lights and origami.

Last year we gave up meat for Advent (at home, not...

2009-11-14T09:58:55.389-08:00

Last year we gave up meat for Advent (at home, not if we were invited out and were offered meat), as we did for Lent. We also compromised on the tree. We still decorated it during the season, but left the lights turned off until Christmas Eve. And we do try to listen more often to Advent carols (there is a collection of them I bought off iTunes). I sometimes listen to the Christmas music before Christmas though, because I do love it.

This year I am thinking about doing an plain wreath for the front door with purple ribbons and switching them out for Christmas.