"...when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is." 1 John 3:2
This is quite belated, but we’ve been super busy and it took me forever to take pictures of our last Advent Christmas ornaments and finally take them all down and put them away until next year. So, here are the pictures of our Truth in the Tinsel experience this year, if you haven’t already seen them on Instagram or Facebook. This year I decided to use Amanda’s new printable ornaments, which was definitely easier and not as much work, but {Read More}
Tomorrow is December 1st and our family’s Christmas celebrations will officially begin! As a young family, we are still figuring out what traditions we want to have, so it is quite basic for the time being. I started by making the same Christmas cookies I made last year – Coffee Fingers, Almond Tea Cookies and Gramma Cookies. I tried a new recipe for the Gramma Cookies this year, which I liked better & I made a yummy almond flavored icing {Read More}
So, I’ve been talking a lot about Truth in the Tinsel lately, but if you still haven’t gone ahead and bought it for yourself, TODAY IS THE DAY to get it!! Amanda is offering a Black Friday deal where if you buy Truth in the Tinsel ($7.99), you will get the printable ornaments ($3.99) for FREE! Here’s how you do it… 1. Go add Truth in the Tinsel to your cart – DO NOT add the printable ornaments. If you {Read More}
So, in case I haven’t raved enough yet about Truth in the Tinsel and you’re still debating whether or not to join in on the fun this December, I have some exciting news to share about some new products and an opportunity for you to purchase your copy at a sweet discount! PRINTABLE ORNAMENTS The first thing I’m really excited about is that Amanda has worked to provide printable ornaments to go along with the Truth in the Tinsel eBook {Read More}
It’s November 1st and that means it’s only one month until we begin celebrating Advent! Last Christmas, I participated in a fabulous Advent experience with my kids called Truth in the Tinsel by OhAmanda, which is a 24-day eBook that counts you and your kids down to Christmas Day with an interactive telling of the Christmas story through crafts and scriptures and ideas for talking with your kids about Jesus’ birth. As I said in my original review of this {Read More}
If you haven’t already, go here to read my original review of Truth in the Tinsel and see pictures from the first 12 days. Yesterday we finished our 24-Day Advent Experience using the eBook Truth in the Tinsel and I’m so glad we did it! Having never celebrated Advent before, it was a new experience for both me and the kids and we all loved it. Justice especially loved retrieving the daily clue, reading the scripture passage with daddy and {Read More}
As you may know, I got the opportunity to review Truth in the Tinsel: An Advent Experience for Little Hands by OhAmanda, which is a 24-day eBook that counts you and your kids down to Christmas Day with an interactive telling of the Christmas story through crafts and scriptures and ideas for talking with your kids about Jesus’ birth. Well, my kids and I have been LOVING it!! After doing it for these first 12 days of December, it has {Read More}
To continue with my Christmas cookie baking frenzy, I got this recipe for Almond Tea Cookies from my mom, and like the Coffee Fingers, she said she got it from an old church friend, this time named Marge Martens, and who knows if she was the original creator or if she also got it from someone else, but whoever created them, they are delicious!! When you read the ingredients on this one, you may just have to turn a blind {Read More}
I’ve been posting some pictures of the Christmas cookies that I’ve been making this year on my Instagram and Facebook feeds and someone requested this recipe, so I figured I’d post it on my blog. This is my first year making my own Christmas cookies, as I’ve been content to mooch off of my mom until now. But now that I have kids of my own along with pregnancy cravings and nesting instincts, I’ve been on a baking frenzy the {Read More}
I’ve never had an advent calendar before or celebrated it, besides perhaps one of those cardboard boxes with the punch out holes with chocolates inside as a kid. However, when I got the chance to review Truth in the Tinsel: An Advent Experience for Little Hands, I got really excited about counting down the days to Christmas with scriptures and crafts with my kids. Amanda, the author of Truth in the Tinsel, included clues that could either be chained together {Read More}
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