Category: Christmas

Looking for the 2025 version of our Advent challenge? This year you can find it on our Substack!

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We’ve really seen the beauty of doing small things for our marriage! Since Advent and Christmas are some of the busiest seasons of the year, we wanted a way to help couples make their marriage a priority during these times.

This is the sixth year we’ve offered an Advent challenge, and last year we even included Christmas challenges since it was the shortest Advent ever.

This year, we have multiple options so you can hopefully find what is best for you and your spouse! Regardless of what you choose to do for Advent, we hope and pray that you remember the following:

1. During Advent, we are preparing for Jesus’s coming at Christmas and when He comes again.
2. In marriage, we have the ultimate goal of getting each other to Heaven.
3. The little things in marriage really do make a big difference.

The original Advent challenge calendar and guide

As always, the Advent challenge includes both a calendar with a simple challenge each day, as well as a guide that gives you some ideas on how to complete each challenge. The challenges range from spiritual to fun to everything in between. Some are easy to do, and others will likely push you out of your comfort zone. Some are specific to feast days, because we love living liturgically!

If you’ve done our challenge a few times already, you likely are familiar with how to complete each challenge. That’s why we’re offering the calendar separately. If you’ve never done our Advent challenge, we recommend you buy at least the guide… but we really like having both the calendar and guide. We laminate our calendar and place in our bathroom so we can see it each day. And then if we need to, we refer to the guide for ideas.

If you choose an option with the calendar, we’ve also included a blank calendar (as always) for you to use instead if you’d like, to write in your own challenges. It’s also a great way to keep track of everything going on — feel free to use it for the challenge on the first day of Advent, “Make an Advent plan.”

If you are not interested in the daily challenges, check out A Journey Through Advent instead, which includes a weekly date night.

Whatever you do, we really do encourage you to focus on Advent together from December 1-24. We’ve realized that when we really focus on Advent and the meaning of the season, it makes Christmas even more special and celebratory. For years, we’ve loved celebrating the Christmas season with our family by doing at least one special thing each day of Christmas, and now we try to do the same for our marriage!

Our new Christmas Fun Couples Challenge

We decided to make our Christmas challenge separate from our Advent challenge this year. But the good news about that is you can use it every single year, since it’s not specific to one year. We provide 12 fun challenges to complete for each of the 12 days of Christmas, December 25 to January 5. We also provide 4 challenges that you can choose from for the feast of Epiphany on January 6. The Christmas challenges are more fun, because it’s a time to celebrate, and we want couples to have fun together!

Please note: In the U.S., Epiphany is usually transferred to Sunday and does not always fall on January 6. Regardless, we choose to still celebrate all 12 days of Christmas, as well as Epiphany on both January 6 and whichever Sunday it is transferred to!

We are praying for all of you always and hope these resources are a blessing. Please pray for us!

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