Category: Advent Calendar 2018
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Magic Castle by Solveig’s Daughter | Advent 2018 Day 10
Can you spot the fairy? I asked my daughter, who is 4 now soon to be 5 if she wanted to participate in the Advent Calendar with a drawing. She said yes and set out to draw a Christmas drawing. That was a few days ago and it still is…
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Gifts for a bookish friend by Stephanie Augustine | Advent Day 9, 2nd Sunday of Advent
Christmas is upon us and you have no idea what to buy for your bookish friend. You want to get them something else besides books though. What do you do? Never fear! Here is a list of places you can go to buy bookish items for your friends. Augustine’s Book…
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Snow and Smiles by Melanie Noell Bernard | Advent 2018 Day 9 – 2nd Sunday
Snow and Smiles By Melanie Noell Bernard Trigger warning: The ending of this winter horror story includes violence which might be disturbing for some readers. Snow. That was what they called it, the people down in the village. I wasn’t supposed to know that or know them, but I…
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A Unique Christmas Ornament by Gary Wilson | Advent 2018 Day 8
“Hey Gary. This is Mark.” This was a surprise because Mark was the husband of the couple we asked to watch our house and pickup our mail for the week we were to be gone. “Merry, almost-Christmas Mark. What’s up?”
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Christmas Sonnet by David Tremayne-Smith | Advent 2018 Day 7
Christmas Sonnet By David Tremayne-Smith Conscience tells me the season has come around,Here again, the ‘clock’ worked time for giving,Rotating emotion, love of the pound,Instead of really loving, we give in.So much worthless money, blindly misspent,Thrown away to boost the ego’s coffer,Mechanically wrapped, of love not a scent,Another meaningless, “…
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Christmas Traditions by Kelli King | Advent 2018 Day 6
Christmas Traditions By Kelli King I love Christmas music. I especially love songs that make me imagine what Christmas is like in other places. My top places to imagine spending Christmas have always been New York City, London, Paris, some enchanting village in Ireland or Germany, and more recently, I…
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Why You Should Learn to Communicate Better With Your Spouse by Holly Geely | Advent 2018 Day 4
Why You Should Learn to Communicate Better With Your Spouse By Holly Geely “I need shortbread, now! At least a hundred!” Will’s shout woke Jerry, who woke up and switched on his bedside lamp. A brief check confirmed it was two o’clock in the morning. “We don’t have any flour,”…
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The Advent Calendar by Geoff Le Pard | Advent 2018 Day 3
The Advent Calendar By Geoff Le Pard ‘What is it, Mum?’ Emily Smith, fourteen, looked up from her book. Gilly, her mother, said, ‘A parcel from Uncle Augustus.’ ‘Who is Uncle Augustus?’ ‘I don’t really know. Someone on your father’s side. Do you remember the man you said looked like…
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Letters to Santa by Solveig Werner | Advent 2018 Day 2 – 1st Sunday of Advent
Letters to Santa by Solveig Werner The postal elve frowned. Something like this had never happened to him since he started his long career many years ago. He called his colleague without taking his eyes of the two neatly written letters on his desk, “Cristel, come and look at this!”…
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In Santa’s Shadow by Trent P. McDonald | Advent 2018 Day 2 | 1st Sunday of Advent
In Santa’s Shadow By Trent P. McDonald Voices where emerging from the kitchen. Loud voices. Chet knew that Mom and Ty were arguing. Again. He couldn’t make out anything more than single words here and there, little blasts of clarity through the heated rumble. His stomach turned over and twisted into knots. Why did they have…
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Chocolate Countdown by Tara Paray | Advent 2018 Day 1
Chocolate Countdown By Tara Paray As this Advent Calendar blog series gets underway (again! — yay!) and Advent for Christians starts tomorrow, I’m beginning my countdown today with a very special calendar. I’ve had Advent calendars made of paper with little date windows you open. I’ve also had the kind…
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The 4th Edition of the Advent Calendar Needs You!
One month until Christmas It is the 25th of November! And you know that means that in a month from now you’ll be stuffed with nice food, will have gift wrap torn to pieces all over the place (or neatly folded in a corner of the room), you’ll have piles…
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Christmas is nearing!
It’s Christmas! Well not quite yet. But in two months it will be Christmas. In two months from now, you’ll be sitting quite full next to a big pile of presents, not quite recalling who gifted you what and not knowing what you are going to do with all that…
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