Advent Season - Keeping the "Christ" in Christmas

If you want a free resource to help you keep the Christ in Christmas...one that's done a lot of the work for you with activities, Bible verses, songs, etc as you prepare your heart, your family and children for Christmas, you may want to check out the Good Morning Girls 4 week study and their ebook on the subject, Advent Study: Keeping Our Hearts Focused on Jesus, which is free when you subscribe to GMG.

I have done a variety of self-created Christmas count downs in the past, but haven't really done Advent, per se, in the past.  I think that this year, I might give it a try - candles and all.  So it's appealing that they have it all compiled for me.

We'll see how it goes. 

I'll also continue my Christmas count down and incorporate the Advent activities into the countdown (because let's face it, there is no way that both will happen independent of each other).

Are we ready to discuss Christmas already?

School Fall Festival

Lest you think the Halloween fun was finished when the holiday itself was over, Jacey's school hosted its own Fall Festival on the Friday following Halloween.

Yet another opportunity for her to dress up.

Again.

As something completely different.

This time she was a Care Bear.  Only in her world, when she put on the 'helmet', her version of a Care Bear growled at people.

'Cause I guess that's what bears do, and since we don't watch the Care Bears, she really doesn't know any better.

She was priceless.  And adorable!

October Running Recap

2 - 1.01 (10:16)
3 - 2.03 (22:13)
5 - 4 miles (39:19)
6 - 3.1 miles (29:45) (5k in less than 30 minutes!!  Whoop!!)


2012 Running Recap
January total = 31.24 (31 days) [MET GOAL]
February total = 9.26 (29 days)
March total = 12.4 (31 days)
April total = 0 (30 days)
May total = 11.2 miles (31 days)
June total= 20.07 miles (30 days)
July total = 11.79 miles (31 days)
August total = 5.22 miles (31 days)
September total = 48.35 miles (30 days) [MET GOAL]
October total =  10.14 miles (31 days)

Beginning September:
2012 Mileage =159.67
2012 Deficit = 145.33


Days remaining
November = 30
December = 31

Ug. Respiratory stuff isn't fun. And I dealt with that (again) this month. That and scheduling issues. *sigh* I guess the scheduling issues is why some people find it beneficial to have a treadmill inside their home?