Reply #4: We lit the Advent candles every night at dinner when I was a kid [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Our Advent wreath came with some paper stars that had appropriate Bible verses on them. Before dinner, one of us kids would read the star for the day and hang it on the rim of the wreath. On Sundays, we would add a verse of "O Come O Come Emmanuel."

We also had Advent calendars. My favorite was a popup village, where all the windows and doors were in places where windows and doors would be in real life, and what was behind the windows and doors was also realistic: a Christmas tree, a woman baking cookies, children sleeping, etc. On Christmas Eve, you opened the church door, and there was a nativity scene.