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Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: dot-matrix on December 02, 2006, 06:06:05 am ---
Pooping Sheep Candy for Christmas
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But Dottie, you forgot to include a link. How are we supposed to order it for our favorite Brokies? :)
Actually I Googled it, and found them for as little as US$4.88 each. :)
Meryl:
OMG now I've seen everything! :laugh:
Penthesilea:
Today it is the first Advent. The weeks before Christmas are counted by their Sundays: first, second, ... Advent.
A visit at a Christmas market during the time of Advent is an appreciated tradition for my family; it's almost obligatory. Today were went there, but sadly I forgot my camera.
Yet I wanted to share it with you and so I googled pics from the internet.
This is the Christmas market in Landau, our next town:
The above pic is from a former year. No snow here yet. On the contrary, it is unusual warm. Today we had 15.5°C (=59°F). People were sitting outside in sidewalk cafés. The next pic shows the same market in daylight and without snow. This is how it was today: sunny and warm. But much more crowded than in the picture.
Normally a visit at the Christmas market demands for Glühwein (= mulled wine). But today it was too warm for it.
A pic from home made mulled wine:
But you can also buy the ready stuff in bottles (that's how I do it ::)):
There was a historical carrousel, very similar to this one:
The historical carrousel is there every year and the kids love it. To historical carrousells belong carrousell organs, which look like this:
The organ at "our" Chrsitmas market was bigger and prettier, with moving figurines who "play" instruments. But the above pic was the best I could find. At least you have an idea of what I'm talking about.
When we were back home, we sat around our Advent wreath, lit the first candle (one candle for ervery Advent Sunday), ate the sweets we had bought at the Christmas market and actually sung a Christmas carol (we rarely sing together, not even at Christmas - but today the mood was just right).
Our Advent wreath this year has blue ornaments and candles. So you have to imagine this pic with blue and only one candle lit :D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on December 03, 2006, 04:46:15 pm ---Today it is the first Advent. The weeks before Christmas are counted by their Sundays: first, second, ... Advent.
When we were back home, we sat around our Advent wreath, lit the first candle (one candle for ervery Advent Sunday), ate the sweets we had bought at the Christmas market and actually sung a Christmas carol (we rarely sing together, not even at Christmas - but today the mood was just right).
Our Advent wreath this year has blue ornaments and candles. So you have to imagine this pic with blue and only one candle lit :D
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Ah, yes, the First Sunday in Advent. Today in my church, at the beginning of the service, we lit the first candle on the wreath.
In the Lutheran congregation where I grew up, the lighting of the Advent wreath was a big deal. It was an important part of the liturgy on the four Sundays preceding Christmas. The congregation would sing something appropriate for Advent, often one stanza of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," while the acolyte lit the candle. Then the first Scripture lesson for the day would be read. I've always felt that this practice helped to contribute to a growing sense of anticipation as we moved toward celebrating the Nativity on Christmas Eve.
When I was a child, purple was the liturgical color in use for Advent, so the candles on the wreath and all the church hangings for the season were purple. Blue is the preferred color for Advent now. In addition, our church's Advent wreath always had a white candle, taller than the others and in the center of the wreath, which was called the Christ Candle and was lit on Christmas Eve.
In the Episcopal (Anglican) church where I worship today, we don't seem to make as much of a fuss over Advent as in the Lutheran church of my youth. Also, there is no Christ Candle for Christmas Eve, just the four blue candles for the Sundays of the season. Different churches, different traditions, I guess. :-\
Lynne:
http://www.matthewshepard.com/pd_erase.cfm#
Stocking stuffers??
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