tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628767515693863152.post2781999388318451460..comments2024-03-29T00:11:40.415-07:00Comments on The Unlikely Homeschool: Christmas Tradition: A Gift to JesusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628767515693863152.post-22020283199289109402014-09-23T06:23:42.324-07:002014-09-23T06:23:42.324-07:00I have a friend who does a similar straw tradition...I have a friend who does a similar straw tradition at Christmas. I love that! Thanks for sharing!Jamie Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07210544168493409813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628767515693863152.post-45499091892522059742014-09-22T19:06:48.286-07:002014-09-22T19:06:48.286-07:00I really like this idea. I think I'll talk to ...I really like this idea. I think I'll talk to my husband about doing something similar to add to our traditions. Here is how our family gives a gift to Jesus on his birthday. My mother-in-law bought us a beautiful Italian-made baby Jesus in the manger (porcelain?) as a souvenir from a trip she took to Europe. Jesus is fairly large, filling the palm of an adult's hand. We put only the manger out at the beginning of Advent, and leave Jesus packed away. For now we put it up high on top of our piano so little people don't break it. We put a little pretty box of "straw" beside it (bits of craft raffia and white and yellow yarn) and every time anyone in the family does a good deed during Lent, he/she puts one piece of straw in the manger. We encourage the children to do lots of good deeds to make Jesus's bed really cozy in time for his birthday. Then on Christmas morning, before anyone else opens a gift, we get the baby Jesus out, sing Happy Birthday to him, and lay him in the manger, in all of the good deeds that we have done for him during the past four weeks. Usually we let the youngest child have the honour of laying him in the manger (not the current baby, of course, but usually a toddler). Even our teenagers still enjoy this tradition, and obviously the meaning of it sinks in a little more as they get older. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628767515693863152.post-71962513995474695112014-09-16T20:29:49.931-07:002014-09-16T20:29:49.931-07:00So glad you're here!So glad you're here!Jamie Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07210544168493409813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628767515693863152.post-1689753188428227782014-09-16T12:22:58.501-07:002014-09-16T12:22:58.501-07:00I stumbled upon your blog while searching Pinteres...I stumbled upon your blog while searching Pinterest. I am so excited that I did. Great ideas.. most I'd like to start using with my own boys! :) Thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08591253913207916548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628767515693863152.post-1616891828706108122012-12-05T11:23:35.749-08:002012-12-05T11:23:35.749-08:00Love that tradition of yours! I started a new trad...Love that tradition of yours! I started a new tradition this year with my family; the Advent Calendar. I know that people do the Advent Calendar in so many ways, but all I knew before starting one is that I didn't want it to be, "self focused". We did the World Vision catalog this year like you and it just broke my heart going through the catalog because I wish we had lot's and lot's of money to help everyone in need!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com