A Sense of Advent

What are some of your early sensory memories of Christmas around you? What smells, sights, tastes, textures and sounds do you remember from your parents or grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family and friends getting ready for Christmas when you were a child?

Get ready, get set, WAIT!

Advent is the season of waiting and noticing and preparing.  This first week of Advent, write about what this liturgical season means to you. What do you do at church and what do you do at home to wait, notice and prepare?  Why do you do it?