Advent 2017: 2 December

Watching Tom Kerridge cook

It's only the 2nd December and already everything is muddled! But that is for a very good reason...

Today I spent the day at the BBC Good Food Show at the NEC in Birmingham with my mum, aunt and one of my sisters. What an amazing day it was - loads of yummy food stalls, demonstrations and freebies, as well as good family time. I would definitely recommend going, but take a suitcase for all the stuff that you end up carrying!

Steve had the children during the day: they enjoyed a morning packing shoeboxes for disadvantaged children, youth and elderly around the world. We're not sure where these boxes were heading but the ones collected at our church are going to Romania. It's such a good idea to be teaching our children about giving to other less fortunate than themselves and widen their horizons.

The Advent Adventure Tin challenge for today was to collect items for a Christmas Eve special evening. We are going to be away with family, and at their Carol Service so we have decided to collect ideas for another night (probably Christmas Eve eve!)

Both children got to open a Wrapped Book present today: Caleb opened The Snowman and Zoë-Grace opened a collection of Little Miss and Mr Men books. The Snowman is on Zoë-Grace's school book list so we'll be encouraging her to read that one to us! It is one of my favourites which is why it was the book for 1 December.

We finished a very busy tiring day with our From Creation to Christmas story about the creation of the first humans, Adam and Eve. We talked about how they were the most wonderful part of creation and that we are just like them: we are the most wonderful thing that God has made. Psalm 100:3 says "He made us, and we belong to him." How awesomely simple!

(Still not decided about my Advent Readings!)