The "Red Box"

A new tradition began this year, simply because we have so many traditions. We gathered around the "red box" each evening. Inside it held all our evening traditions...a treat for each child or group treat (a movie, candy, snack, game, note, etc...), the reading of the advent and devotion (sometime activity), a piece to the Nativity, a Christmas storybook, closing with a prayer over each Christmas card received that day and a Christmas carol/hymn. It truly kept us focused on Jesus this Christmas as we counted down to the celebration of His birth!