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I'm Sara, the voice behind Chasing Jupiter, wife to my best friend, and homeschool mom to our two young boys.
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  • “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. -Charles Dickens 🎄 The most beautiful words I’ve read so far this Christmas season. ❤️
  • Baby, it’s cold outside. ❄️ #christmasincanada
  • Christmas books. 📚🎄 They are always my favourite part of our Christmas “decor”. Each year we add a new book to our holiday collection and I always pick up a few from the library. What books will you be reading over the Christmas season? 📖
  • “We should number our days not so we live fearfully but in order to live more faithfully. We count our days so we can make them count.” -Karen Ehman & Ruth Schwenk 🌿 ————————————— There are only three weeks left until Christmas but the boys want it to be Christmas yesterday. In their innocence time crawls by, but those of us with years behind us know better. This month will fly by and we’ll be left wondering where it went. Christmas will come and go. The excitement will fade. The world will slip back into ordinary. (To be honest I’m quite fond of “ordinary) 🌿 ————————————— Christmas on it’s very own is a gift. A gift of family, time, love, and magic. A season of togetherness, acceptance, and joy. Even without the presents, the perfectly planned parties, unique advent countdown, beautiful decorations, or the perfectly curated images on social media. 🌿 ————————————— Something pretty magical occurred all those years ago to bring everyone together in celebration. Both those that celebrate the reason for the season and those that do not. This season I am refusing to waste the gift that it is. I’ll put down the phone, the camera, and the busyness. I’ll choose to embrace the experience of the season fully with my family by remembering that every Yes is a No to something else and I’ll choose with intention. ✨
  • “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder🌿 —————————————
  • “The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” -J. B. Priestly ❄️ #oshkoshkids
  • ““There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for awhile. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” - J.R.R. Tolkien ✨ ————————————— I have long been a fan of Tolkien’s works. Only last year did I discover this book of letters he wrote to his children from Father Christmas. Like all his stories the letters from Father Christmas are filled with epic adventures, fantasy, art, and poetic stories of far away lands. ————————————— Many of the letters were written during WWII, and the difficult times were depicted in the stories. But in true Tolkien fashion the stories and letters from the North Pole were never without hope. ————————————— I have a stack of books I’ll be going through with the boys over the Christmas season. Stories of magic, light, and hope. This one was the first and I’ll share the rest as we go. ————————————— Do you have favourite books you get out to read each Christmas? 🎄
  • “November comes And November goes, With the last red berries And the first white snows. ————————————— With night coming early, And dawn coming late, And ice in the bucket And frost by the gate. ————————————— The fires burn And the kettles sing, And earth sinks to rest Until next spring.” ————————————— -Clyde Watson 🍂 ————————————— I love the coziness of November but honestly, it can become a little dreary with the shorter days and colder weather. So... we are putting up some lights and our Christmas tree today. What do you think, is it too early? According to Google I am about two weeks too early. 😆 When do you decorate for Christmas (if you decorate)? 🎄
  • Learning about diffusion with the boys! So fun, so colourful, and so tasty according to the 4yr old who ate most of the ingredients before we got started. All you need is a plate, skittles (I’m sure other candy would work too) and warm water. 🍭 DIY science experiment from @kiwico_inc 👨‍🔬 Happy Saturday!

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