Our first Advent carol singing night was actually at my parents' house. They invited friends on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and Rosebud and I sang together with them. Good times, as always, although since their friends are all older people, it was the most sedate Advent that we've ever had! When Rosebud and I got home, we had another Advent on the last Sunday in November just as a family - sitting around singing together.
For Advent #2, we co-opted the weekly Sunday night get together that our friends up the street host, and sang songs with that group. We brought up the keyboard and I played from an armchair. It was a little awkward. We also invited all of Mr. Brown's Sunday School class for new and returning members, but only one of them came.
Advent #3 saw two families from church coming over to our house to sing with us. Their kids are all younger than ours and included a 2yo and a baby. Altogether it was only four adults and five kids that came, so not too loud, and they were all so happy to sing with us. It was fun to get to know all of them better too!
Last Advent on 21 December - this is the one that everyone said they could come to, and we ended up with 35 people (including us) on the list. We were concerned about whether or not we could host that many and still have fun. Fortunately (!) one of the families fell ill and canceled on us on Sunday morning, so we ended up being 29 people instead: Bloods, Isert/Montanos, and the families of Rosebud's best friends from school. It was so much fun to hang out with them and get to know them a little better. And singing with old friends was also just wonderful. It was a really, really great evening!
Both Nut Brown and I sang in the choir for the Christmas service at church. It was a really wonderful service. When we were rehearsing before church, I felt very strongly that God was pleased that we were worshipfully celebrating the birth of His Son that day.
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