Days: 21, 22

We had 2 unique days of Advent. Day 21 was Car-vent edition, where we told the story in the dark car. It's a little hard for them to take it as the "real thing" with no box and no book, no tree, and no Legos! but we convinced them this is the flexibility needed to travel Christmas week and that we would double up on everything the next day.

Day 21: The Prophets
We have already covered in more detail other prophets: Moses, Daniel, Jonah, Elijah, and Isaiah, but this was a general discussion about what a prophet is and characteristics that were foretold about Jesus and His coming. The ornament is is of a cross and crown (red, below) to symbolize prophecies of Jesus as suffering and Savior or King, which was theme we spent a while discussing. It was actually nice doing Advent this way because we had no pressure of time since we were traveling for several hours and no distraction with the chocolate or toy. We spent a lot of the night singing along with the radio and reviewing the songs we have already done this month. Different, but fun night.

If using the Bible or another Bible reader - There is no specific story in BIS for there are several passages to look up and read, like Isaiah 53.
We sang every song we have sung so far while in the car and any that came on the radio.

Day 22: Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist and Mary, mother of Jesus
For this day we had a guest reader, the kids' Pop to read the stories. We read about the miraculous messengers sent to Elizabeth and her cousin, Mary, and their miraculous pregnancies- Elizabeth as an older woman and Mary as a young virgin, chosen to carry the Son of God. There was a Mary chocolate and she is pictured above (purple). My son said it looks like Tinkerbell is coming to visit her, but I was trying to show the angel descending to her. Elizabeth (blue) is below. We ended the night with Nana playing the piano for us, working on our family harmony.

Elizabeth with leaping John the Baptist

If you are following along with the Bible in Stories - pages 438-445

If using the Bible or another Bible reader - Luke 1-2, Matthew 1, John 1 

Songs: "Joy to the World", "O Come, O Come Emanuel", "What Child is this"