Blogging

So my friend text me the other day and told me I need to blog. I think I spoiled everyone in November posting 4 whole times! Not much has really been going on. I am starting school in January. I have taken my basic skills test and passed with flying colors. I have been substitute teaching for about a month and have been pretty busy with that. My last day at the Elks is Wednesday. I wrecked my car on Monday and now have to fork out loads of money to fix it. But when I went to pick it up they couldn't find a bill for it. Not even an order. So hopefully we can get Christmas done before we have to pay for that. We have scaled down our Christmas considerably. The girls are getting a total of 5 presents from us this year. One gold gift-a gift they really really want. One frankincense gift-a gift that brings them closer to God. One myrrh gift-a gift that covers them from head to toe. Of course Santa will bring one gift. And the Christmas Eve Elf always stops by to leave pjs. My husband and I are not buying for each other. And we have set a small limit for the other children in the family. That's it. I usually go overboard, but I usually start and finish before Thanksgiving. And I usually buy for friends, coworkers, etc. You know at Jade's school, the children are not doing a gift exchange with each other. They are bringing in a donation then going to pick 2 children from the Angel Tree and go out to Walmart to shop for gifts for someone else in need. I think this is something that teaches the students a very valuable lesson about the meaning of Christmas. I would like to incorporate this into my own classroom when I get to teach, but I don't know if I will be able to pull it off in a public classroom. I don't know if that will be bordering on laws that regulate Christ in the classroom. It almost makes me sick to think that at the time when Jesus came to give us life, we can not even respond by giving to others in His name in a public school. The correlation of the time that Jesus was taken out of schools and the rise in teen pregnancies, drop out rates, poor test scores, gangs, etc. is astounding. I have done research on this for papers in school and all I can do is laugh when the government tries to implement new laws to prevent these things, when they just need to reinstitute one important one.
But I digress. My mother-in-law told me what advent is, but I am still on the search for where did this tradition come from. I haven't been able to find that answer yet. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
That's all for now.