White Stocking FHE

Last year we started a tradition. Every Christmas, for at least one family home evening, we get the family together (both sides) and have a White Stocking event. Years ago my mom received a beautiful white stocking with a note in it. It is a beautiful poem that talks about how we should be celebrating the meaning of Christmas by remembering to keep Christ in Christmas. What you do is you think of a gift that you would like to give to Christ, write it down and then put it in his stocking. Save the papers until the next year and re-evaluate. It was great fun to open up our notes from last year and see what they said. This year we had the McFadden's join us. What fun. Then we have Jeff read about the birth of Christ. Virgie gave me an advent story book last year. It is made up of Christmas stories, christmas songs, and versus from the bible. It is an interactive, flowing way of experiencing the story of the birth of Christ. What a wonderful spirit!

Virgie playing the music to all the songs we sang.

Jeff reading from the advent story book.

Aidan and Zoe dancing around to the music.

Brian and our Christmas tree.
Finally a picture of the tree!

Nate and Keira Jo smiling for the camera.