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Angie Mc
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Blessed Advent to ALL!!! Hope your week has been fabulous!
On November 30, at 11:48 pm, my home was completely organized and cleaned. A two week project finished with 12 MINUTES to spare! 
I'm still tired  .
Resting up to see Bruce Springsteen tomorrow night! A birthday gift from my awesome-est husband ever! What should I wear? My collection of concert T-shirts isn't what it used to be .
I'm also thinking about cookies. Christmas cookies. Lots of Christmas cookies!
Our outdoor Christmas decorations are up. Our tree is up with just purple lights for Advent. Love it! We'll decorate Christmas Eve. Our manger is up, without Baby Jesus, Shepherds, Kings - will add later  . Our Advent wreath is on the table. I used pretty yellow candles with 1 pink just because it looks so pretty - purple and pink bows are on the wreath. Missed purchasing the Advent Calendars at Trader Joes - oh well! Making chain link countdown today.
How are you?
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oh it's Wednesday.. no meetings or other stuff.. planning a nice dinner.. we were given a bunch of fruits and veggies (few of each but several types) and I think I want to roast up veggies with a roast (I got a beef roast on sale the other week). I think I'll do a fruit salad type of thing for a breakfast this weekend when dh is home and the persimmons.. I'm thinking a bread with those.
Even with everything going on I impressed myself.. Advent "stuff" often starts late here with holiday travel and busy schedules but we were able to get the paper chains made on Sunday and put up (first Sunday they go up so no taking a link off.. last link comes down on Christmas Eve when we put up decorations). And other than last night we've been reading out of our Advent Story Book and out of Donkey Bells. Last night was a late night so we'll just read 2 days worth tonight. I also dug around in my buffet and found some candles to do an Advent Wreath though right now it' just tapers in candle holders.. I mean to tie some greenery to each candle.. we just set them in a circle, so that during the day I can put them up on a high shelf out of reach of curious fingers 
Anyway I just love having the paper chains up during Advent. No other decorations needed.. 10 paper chains (because you know even the baby must have his own) around my living room transforms the feel of the room quite well.
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We are completely disorganized, untidy and undecorated, because we've just returned home from the Southern Region Oireachtas (Irish Dance Championships) in New Orleans. What a weekend! I had some NOLA culture shock - it was my first visit - but we got to see some great museums, a Christmas parade and a lot of great dancing.
Now it's time to regroup and get ready for the celebration of our Savior's birth!
P. S. - My daughter had a great competition weekend, too, achieving all her goals and dancing her very best. We're very happy for her.
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Can somebody just stop time and let me catch up 
I know we had a whole extra week to prepare for Advent but life and death happened and I am wishing is was September again.
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We are having a nice week....I ordered Lisa Hendey’s book, "Oh Radiant Dawn" I heard her on Catholic Radio describing five minute prayers for the family to do around the Advent wreath...and I am so glad, I just haven’t found that one “thing” to do yet with the wreath.
We are in the midst of a 54 Day Rosary Novena to ask for favors for my son who is in the thick of college apps...that is a bit nervewracking, but I wanted to place it in Our Lady’s hands and be delighted by miracles worked.
LOVING the cd from the Benedictine nuns...Advent at Ephesus which is a beautiful selection of music.
We are chugging along with school, more than we have done in years past in December. I am still a bit disorganized and disoriented in a good way...we have had so many surgeries and serious illnesses, we don’t have a boatload of Advent traditions...other than simply holding on for dear life and keeping the laundry done and food on the table...and kids breathing.
Now...we are doing pretty well and I feel a bit....lost...have so many ideas in my head but not very organized yet. I am going to do up Our Lady of Guadalupe this year. We love her. The younger boys listened to a presentation on Youtube about all of the miracles of the image, (the images in Her eyes, etc) and they were so taken with all of this, that I want to set aside her Feast Day in remembrance of all of the surgeries that have been scheduled on this day....if the kids needed surgery in December, they were mostly scheduled on Mary’s feast days!!! I didn’t go out of my way to do this, the scheduler would just call and say, “So, how’s Dec. 8th.....or 12th?” Isn’t that amazing? She is so good to us. We’ll be celebrating St. Lucy’s feast day as well with Miss Lily....I haven’t done that yet, but I thought about helping her make the headpiece with the “candles” and also bake cookies for the boys that she can serve them while wearing her crown.  I bet that tradition will be embraced quite warmly by most.
Nice to check in with my friends here....praying for all of your intentions!
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House sort of clean: check.
Laundry sort of done: check-ish.
Advent candles: check.
Remembering to light Advent candles: check so far.
Found a set of (matching!) Mary and Joseph figures to wander around the house looking for Bethlehem: check.
Found box with all St. Nicholas figures, which I packed together oh so organizedly last year and put away . . . well, now I know where: check.
St. Andrew novena: sort of check. I wrote it up on the whiteboard in the kitchen so that I'd say it whenever I pass through, on the theory that praying it at all beats praying it negative-fifteen times . . .
Blog post detailing our Advent craft
First in a series of Advent meditation posts
Also, today's my baby's ninth birthday, and we're sitting here right now, late in the afternoon, in a kind of celebratory coma, surrounded by Playmobil. She really scored this year: not one but *two* different Playmobil "Advent Calendar" sets, neither of which is going to get used as an Advent calendar, alas, since they belong to her and not me! Fortunately we are not exactly short of Advent calendars around here, what with one thing and another, so the toys can just be toys.
Gearing myself up to go off to a choir meeting before Mass, then Mass, then what will assuredly be a marathon choir rehearsal. I'm thinking I should maybe remember to eat before I go . . .
Happy Wednesday to all!
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I finally made a Wednesday! I have three sick boys, so my plans have been a bit scaled down, today. I made my sister's "snappy meatballs" recipe, today, only with ground turkey instead of the beef, to which I am allergic. Tomorrow is our parish's women's advent reflection evening (just beautiful- the school cafeteria is totally transformed as each lady who signs up for a table creates the most lovely tables- so many creative ladies, and I need to remember to jot down the ideas, as I peruse each one!) I am making the meatballs as a dry-run of sorts, as I have never made them with turkey. My 17yods just finished off the lot, so I guess they are ok.
I found the advent candles, totally by accident, on Saturday, when I was searching for fish food, pulled open the drawer under the aquarium table, and found the candles, tossed in with all the fish paraphenalia! I wonder who did that! 
With the boys, I have only scratched the surface of advent. I went over the beginning of the liturgical year, comparing the Church's calendar to our yearly calendar. I am keeping up, so far, with my St. Andrew Christmas Novena. And today, when I had to run to the bank, I was able to pick up some "gold" coins (the $1 president coin dollars,) for tomorrow's feast of St. Nicholas.
That's it. Not one Christmas gift purchased. And I don't even feel bad about it!
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We stareted the St. Andrew chaplet, put up outdoor lights, began our advent wreath and jesse tree. We put up the nativity with only the animals and have a lovely Christmas tree. I brought out all of our Advent books and printed out coloring pages. Tonight we are making treats. It has become tradition to pass out treats to neighbors with a St. Nicholas prayer card.
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We are enjoying the Advent season with quiet and calm. Everyone around us is busy during the time leading up to Christmas but we are the opposite. I have intentionally left the next few weeks clear and free of outside commitments. I want to enjoy this time with my kids.
We have been doing all of our Christmas traditions this year (in years past we would only have time to do a few of them.) We are doing a Christmas countdown with unwrapping a Christmas picture book every day. I had not planned on doing this as my children are older but the kids insisted. We are also doing Advent boxes. In each box, there is a reminder of a Bible reading and a suggestion for a Christmas activity. So far we have made Christmas goodies, made a gingerbread house, made Christmas tree decorations, watched a Christmas and the list goes on for the rest of the month. I am thoroughly enjoying this time of Advent.
Also, our kitchen reno is finished!  My new kitchen is simply beautiful. Now the carpenter has to move down to the baseement and finish the school room.
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