Delivering Goodies and Singing Christmas Carols

Tonight we got to do one of my favorite advent activities, deliver goodies to our neighbors. And what a fun night it was! As I said in my previous post we opted to do something a little simpler this year than making bread hence the reason the goodies don't match what the advent paper said. We are so blessed to have such thoughtful and kind neighbors and so often we go months without speaking to them so I always look forward to this night and getting to spend at least a few minutes with them. I took Ava Kate with me to deliver the goodies and we went to the first house and dropped off their goodies and visited at the door a while after we turned to leave their house Ava Kate said "I want to go to another house and take them goodies so they can smile and we can say Merry Christmas!" It was such a joy to watch her experience the joy of giving. We went to a couple more houses and had to just leave the goodies since they weren't home but our last stop was quite a treat. Our neighbor Malta was home and invited us in to show Ava Kate her Christmas lights. We visited a while and Ava asked to see Malta's piano. She asked her if she wanted to play and at first she was being hesitant so Malta played a while and then Ava decided to join in. We sat for a while playing and singing Christmas carols together. Ava didn't want to leave!