Woodwater Farmhouse

Tonight is the night!  The night I have been anticipating...preparing for....thinking about...laying awake at night - hoping and praying this is well received by our children.   We are starting a new tradition this year. As of December 1st our homeschool will be calmer...lessened by worksheets...lifted by The Holy Spirit...we will be baking...giving...helping.. .serving...decorating...coloring...crafting...creating...learning...reading...as a family. We are starting tonight by celebrating The Night Before Advent !  Cocoa - games and the reading of the poem by Ann Voskamp (found on her website) . It's not too late to start...it doesn't have to be tonight...or tomorrow..there is no rush, no hurry...just be filled with his spirit and let HIM guide you.  Do you celebrate the advent season?   I invite you to follow along with our family on Instagram and we share our school day with Unwrapping the Greatest Gift !   This...

I have decided for the month of December our family will be changing our "normal" holiday routine.  We will continue to spread cheer by donating, baking, praying, visiting, giving back and of course our Christmas Pageant at church, however, our home will be much different than in December's past.  This year, I have decided that we will be ONLY be studying the lineage of Jesus. Using our Jesse tree and Ann Voskamp's newest gift to us all.  I will admit, I have not read Ann's other books, mostly for a lack of commitment  on my part. However, I had the pleasure of listening to Ann speak and having a moment with her in an elevator at a conference. Just her and I praying together - it was a beautiful moment between two moms, daughters in Christ, women who believed.  The  Tree of Jesse  is a depiction in art of the ancestors of Christ, shown in a tree which rises from  Jesse  of  Bethlehem , the father of king David and...