Every Morning in December

See this little chain, pinned to our bare walls?

This is our humble little scripture advent.  I made it in five minutes.  I know: I may very well be a crafting genious.

Every morning, one of the kiddos gently tears off that day's chain (and by gently I do mean with force enough to pull the entire chain off of the wall).

We gather around in our family room with our scriptures...

The girls are collecting the links, which means nearly every morning there is a scream-war over who gets that day's.  Porter finally resolved it by tearing one into two, and now that has become part of the routine.

Porter has officially lost three sets of the cheap scriptures, so he has to set on mommy's lap and share hers...

I may or may not have forgotten the specific location of my own scriptures, so I just use my phone.

Yeah, he gets his good looks and misplacing abilities from his madre.  There are worse things.

Whomever took off the link gets to read the scripture and ask the question (of course, I have to whisper-read Porter's to him).

And everyone raises their hand to answer, even if they hadn't even listened to the question *cough* Porter *cough*.

All while Wy-Fi runs around, using the scripture slip as a mustache. 

That kid may be a bit out of control.

Now, as some may know, we've had this daily reading in December tradition for a long time (2009, 2008, 2007- apparently I haven't taken pictures of this in the last couple of years) .  Almost every year I've found a new set of scripture references to share, none have suited me.

This year I came across this list from some random google search.  Unfortunately, I did not save the link to it, for which do I apologize.  This is by far my most favorite one of all.  These scriptures really focus on Christ's birth and the questions and songs help to reiterate to the kiddos what they had just read.  Love it.

I did whip up this list so that I can pull it up on the blog every year without fear of adding it to the pile of long-lost-items-misplaced-by-Courtney.

It's a big pile.  I think.

Next year I believe that I will go back to our usual adding an ornament to a mini tree tradition, but the chain thing is kinda fun.  Maybe I'll hold a family vote to decide...