{"id":332,"date":"2015-12-05T23:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T04:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeofahomeschoolmomma.wordpress.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2015-12-05T23:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T04:18:36","slug":"new-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crayonstokeyboards.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"New Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year we are starting a new tradition.\u00a0 I found a book a day countdown to Christmas on Pinterest.\u00a0 Take 24 or 25 books, depending on if you want your last book to be read on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, and wrap them up.\u00a0 You unwrap one a day and\u00a0read them together as a family.<\/p>\n<p>My goal was to find 24 + books that have Jesus&#8217; birth in them.\u00a0 I was able to get about half and so I chose some of our other books that focus on events that occurred in the Bible.\u00a0 I will continue gathering more as I come across them to grow our library.<\/p>\n<p>I chose a plain blue and white Merry Christmas wrapping paper to wrap the books.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-337 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeofahomeschoolmomma.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/img_2890.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2890\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are opening one a night and every night a different child is choosing the book from the pile and they get to unwrap the book.\u00a0 We are going from youngest to oldest.<\/p>\n<p>The books opened so far:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1561485365\" target=\"_blank\">A Star So Bright: A Christmas Tale by M. Christina Butler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adam-Garden-jard%C3%ADn-Beginners-Bible\/dp\/0310718929\" target=\"_blank\">Adam and Eve in the Garden (Ad\u00e1n y Eva en el jard\u00edn) by Zondervan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Story-Jesus-Young-Children-Book\/dp\/0746062656\" target=\"_blank\">The Story of Jesus for Young Children retold by Heather Amery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Drummer-Boy-Christmas-Dekker-First\/dp\/B0041BT686\" target=\"_blank\">The Drummer Boy by Ted Dekker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Berenstain-Bears-Old-Fashioned-Christmas\/dp\/0060574437\" target=\"_blank\">The Berenstain Bears&#8217; Old-Fashioned Christmas by Jan &amp; Mike Berenstain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The above links are NOT affiliate links.\u00a0 I am just sharing where you can find them.<\/p>\n<p>The kids are enjoying getting to select the book of the night and reading together as a family.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blessed day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=1blessedhouse\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year we are starting a new tradition.\u00a0 I found a book a day countdown to Christmas on Pinterest.\u00a0 Take 24 or 25 books, depending on if you want your last book to be read on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, and wrap them up.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,70,221,258],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-books","tag-christmas","tag-reading-together","tag-tradition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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