December Day #5

Posting a bit late as my camera decided to throw a spanner in the works...never mind, better late than never right?!

So Friday morning dawns and we find our angels sitting on the phone holding the picture of an ear.  "Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear."  Matthew 13:16

We talked about listening for God's voice and the different ways he spoke to people in the Bible.  The first and most important way of hearing God's voice is to read His Word.  When his Word is in our hearts we are able to more clearly hear His voice.

The Bible in our hearts

We read on Day #4 about Mary.  This is the craft we did about Mary; she had WILLING hands, LISTENING ears, and an OBEDIENT heart.

In The Truth In The Tinsel we read about Elizabeth, Zechariah's wife.  Here they are together on our poster...

In the morning I had to go to town to take Angel to design school for her last day, so I left everyone home in the capable hands of Eagle and asked Butterfly to bake cookies.

A little selection of her effort!

Opening books today were Arrow and Cedar

The books are:

• Granny Goes to Bethlehem, a completely fictional story about Mary's mother set in the stable.  Interestingly my girls commented that they didn't like the story so much as it made Mary's mother something quite unlike they would have thought her to be and the  story somewhat irreverent.  Maybe we will toss this book.  I am pleased to notice them thinking from a world view that doesn't accept silliness and a lack of reverence.
• Peter Rabbits Christmas Book.  This delightful book has lots of Christmas activities to do from Beatrix Potters stories.  We just read the story The Tailor of Gloucester.  Not about Jesus, but a story and study of character. 

Our family movie night, with home made pizza, was...

I like this movie.  I love the song the little girl sings on the train.  Some of my children said "mum it isn't about Jesus, it's got Santa in it!" I've raised them well - haha.  

But I did say to them that we read lots of fictional stories and this is just a story.  It isn't that we avoid Santa completely, he just isn't the focus.  It is actually other people that make it an issue in the minds of my children, the way adults talk as if Santa is real.  We have just never gone down that path.  

~Lorna