Gratitude

Carole Ellison began writing poems to her children in the 1970s, when they were reaching the age of reason and as she found herself in the position of becoming a single parent. She felt she needed something special to share with them — something that would become a tradition, something they could always count on...
And so her Advent Poems began — one day, decades ago — with a poem each day during the Advent season in December. The poems were accompanied by a little trinket or sweet for them ...