Creating intentional Christmas traditions helps me focus our holiday on the things that really matter to us. For our family, intentional traditions means remembering and worshipping Jesus, building stronger family bonds, and serving others to help spread God’s love. This blog post details some of our most concrete Christmas traditions, designed with those ends in mind.

We’re trying to be more intentional with our gift-giving this year, so I thought about the things I value (and hope my girls will value, too), and that’s what we’re using for our gift categories this year! Check out this blog post for all the details on what we decided on, as well as the actual gifts we’re giving this year.

Each day during December, we do a simple Christmas activity together as a family. We love spending this intentional time together during the holiday season! Check out this blog post to learn how we plan our adventivities, as well as the ones we settled on this year.

We only really have one solid Thanksgiving tradition, but it’s a good one. I love this cute and fun visual reminder to be grateful!

My family made a short Fall Bucket List to make our day-to-day life more exciting, and we’ve been enjoying crossing items off the list. Here are 7 things my family is doing to make the most of fall this year!