Advent?

Being raised Catholic I can vaguely remember the words Advent and Lent being dropped at significant holiday times. The only thing I knew for sure was that chocolate was involved with both, eating and abstaining, but I could never remember which was which....anyway here we are in the second week of Advent and I am thrilled to be rediscovering it thanks to "No's" school and their annual Advent Spiral celebration.

First week celebrates the Mineral Kingdom
Second week celebrates the Plant Kingdom
Third week celebrates the Animal Kingdom
Fourth week celebrates ...the Child of Light, or Human Kingdom



The Advent Spiral really affected NoNi, they made their own, dimmed the lights and walked the spiral in the light of the full moon, and well.... my heart swelled.



Lighting the "candles" (Martha at the centre of it all, hehehe)