The Jesse Tree

I'm not sure when I stumbled upon the Jesse Tree, but it was definitely back when we lived in South Big City. I made ornaments from THIS web site.

I want my family to focus on the Christ Child, not Santa, or presents. I want them to learn to give more, and receive less. With Christ, you can learn that.

We will be making new ornaments this year. We lost the original set I made sometime during the two moves after the fire. This year, I think we will embroider the patterns from the site I shared.

We will be using this book for the devotions:

The Advent Jesse Tree

It's an Advent type of devotional, but I think maybe less Catholic oriented? And I think it makes it easier for the little ones to see the things we are reading about as we hang the ornaments. It's less commercial, and less pagan in nature.