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Happy Epiphany!
January 6, 2011
Yep, today is Epiphany – Three Kings Day. We celebrate the arrival of kings Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar in Bethlehem to worship Jesus – the King of Kings. In our home we celebrate by having the kings to our nativity go on a long journey through the house until they find the Christ Child (who resides on our “fireplace” mantle). Each day the kids try to find them and it is met with a lot of excitement when they do. This year I let some of the younger kids “hide” the kings – they thought this was a lot of fun too. I got the idea of having the kings travel from a priest (or two) and started the tradition years ago. Also traditional is either spice cake or stollen – a spice cake with fruit – that we get from Aldi. Today it’s stollen and, after supper, we will celebrate this feast which ends the twelve days of Christmas officially. However, I keep our nativity scene up until February 2 – Candlemas – because that is the official end of the Christmas season in the Church. So, while the tree goes this weekend, we’ll still keep our focus on Christmas for a little while longer. Happy Epiphany everyone!!
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I am an unperfect mom to 8 great kids: 5 boys and 3 girls (and I had them in that order too).
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Comments
On January 6, 2011 at 2:52 PM, dxprog said:
I noticed the stolins were out today. We should totally watch a movie or something to go along with them.
On January 6, 2011 at 6:52 PM, java_queen said:
Indeed - but what movie? I'd be more than happy to watch Scrooge again :-).