In the months of November and December we have so much to celebrate and prepare for. Between Jacob and I's families, we have 5 birthdays and 2 Anniversaries. We have Advent to prepare for the coming of Christ, Thanksgiving, St. Nicholas Day, Immaculate Conception (today), of course Christmas Day, and New Years Day, which is also the feast of Mary, the Mother of God, then we have the Octave of Christmas, and Ty and Haven's new baby in January sometime! Phew.
Today is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Only in the Catholic faith do we celebrate when someone was conceived. I love it! Fr. Brownsey gave a great homily on this feast day last year. He was talking about how much we celebrate St. Patrick's Day (the patron of Ireland). He said the Immaculate Conception is the Patroness of the US and we should paint our faces blue and die the rivers blue and really celebrate the miracle of this woman who brought us the Savior!!! So we all had blueberry muffins this morning, we are wearing our blue today and we are going to celebrate our Mama. Not sure how, Jacob has a surprise planned. If you can believe that. He loves surprises.
For St. Nicholas Day we have started a tradition of making each other ornaments symbolizing something the other was "into" the past year. We started when we first started dating and we have acquired quite a few so far. It's always fun to see Jacob's perspective on my year! He's pretty good. I thought it would be fun to share them....
I made the ones on the left and Jacob made the ones on the right. I have improved over the years...
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| We consecrated ourselves to Mary that year and the story of our love started. |
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| Jacob was into faith and how it relates to politics and I was getting ready for a wedding! |
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe of course and St. Gianna. And our precious little babe Joseph Emmanuel who we miscarried. |
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| Jacob was painting more and becoming a daddy and I was learning about Our Lady's domesticness. And Gianna was waving to everyone from the womb. |
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| Jacob refinished furniture this year to get to know St. Joseph more and I have been loving making this house a home. And Gianna (don't tell her we didn't finish it on time) loves bouncing and watching other kids jump and bounce. I will have to give an updated picture of this one when it's done. |
And don't forget the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Monday! That's a big one too! and I loved seeing these ornaments. they are so cool... and well done. how do you do it?
ReplyDeleteOf COURSE Our Lady of Guadalupe! It's also our anniversary! Well you are probably asking about the ornaments Jacob made. You will have to ask him. I think clay and magic are involved in most of them. :)
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