Teachable {MOM}ents

Today, we continued with the ABC's of Advent - "B is for Baby Jesus". We began by changing the "gift marker" on our Advent Calendar to day 2. Then I asked Evelyn to tell me who Jesus is. Her Response: "Jesus is a King. I know Jesus is born." After that we read Matthew 1:22-25. "The virgin will conceive and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means "God with us")." Matthew 1:23 We read the book, "On This Special Night" and then sang a song about Baby Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Oh what a wonderful child. Jesus, Jesus, so lowly, meek and mild. New life, new hope, new joy he bring, Won't you listen to the angels sing. Glory, Glory, Glory, to the newborn King! Here is Evelyn doing "Jesus" sign language to the song: Now it was time to make our ornament. Today, we made an ornament out of a Christmas Card - you can use any Christmas card with the nativity, manger or baby Jesus on it. Items ...

I have been thinking about Jesus being the ultimate teacher. Jesus created "teachable moments", isn't that exactly what the parables are? Jesus took 'every-day' moments and turned them into 'teachable' ones. Jesus really used every moment as a teachable moment, and as I strive to be more like Him, that is definitely an area that I hope to improve upon. So it was Day 4 of "The Very Hungry Evelyn" book, and she 'ate' through four red strawberries. She painted strawberries with strawberry Jell0, and ate some real strawberries as well (she liked the Jello better!). I had to let some cleaning go so that I could get this done and get us all ready to go on a family outing (read below), but sometimes it is good to have days when you realize that your children are more important than the dishes in the sink :) My friend, Amanda , actually just blogged about this as well. We went to a soccer game for the school my husband teaches at (Mansfield Chris...