Our "Meaningful Christmas" Get Together

     I had talked a little while ago about a devotional called A Meaningful Christmas.  It is SUCH a wonderful idea - but I put in too late for it!  SO, my Bible Study friend, Tammie, and I decided that we would be able to write one ourselves.  Tammie did/does SO many great things with her family and the "TRUE" Christian life, so she was the one that really knew the Bible and how to kind of go about this.  She came over one night and we were able to come up with 24 days - one for each in December - to read a devotional verse with your kids and a "symbol" to go with each day.  I talked with our Bible Study ladies about it and they wanted to participate in it - and before we knew it we had 24 beautiful, Christian women to participate.  Each woman was assigned a day and a symbol that they had to incorporate into an ornament.  They were responsible for making 24 of these that we would then exchange with one another so we have all 24 days!  I created a box for each family to store their Advent ornaments and devotionals in, and I also gave each family a Christmas Nail to put in the center of their family tree:)!
   Here are what the boxes and devotionals looked like:

Here are the ornaments that these DARLING ladies came up with:)

And here are the ladies CRAMMED in my living room to go through their box of ornaments and a little devotional time together!

What a PRECIOUS night and our family sure loved it!!! What a WONDERFUL thing to do each and every Christmas to always help remind my boys of the Love God had for us to send us Jesus!!!

Good Night
Holly:)