And so it begins...
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 11:15AM Despite the fact that Micah still woke me in the middle of the night with his coughing (we slept the rest of the night on the couch), we've been managing to make a bit of progress here. So, today, on December first, we were ready to go...
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Our Elfie reappeared and is apparently filling Santa Yoda in on how things work here. (Santa Yoda's new here this year and is living on the fireplace to keep watch over these boys of mine, lol.)...
Our new countdown calendar is started. (I ran out of Ormolu number tags and just printed these, but still used the lovely file tabs. Now that the recipients of these gifts have received them, it's okay to share.)...
Our December books are wrapped and ready to be opened as bedtime books...
My Candy for Strangers (which I'm officially renaming as Papa bars) are ready to be given out...and,
Our Lego advent calendar is begun...with a Star Wars theme this year, of course.
(Here's a bit more about the history behind each of these things in our home. I'm still unpacking decorations and hope to actually find that flippable countdown calendar soon, lol.)
How's your December starting off?
Reader Comments (1)
Amanda - we do something similar to your daily book countdown to Christmas idea. Except - ours isn't nearly so.... bookish. Probably should be. =/ We call it the 24 Days of Christmas (or December, depending on who in my family you ask) and the idea is that you get a tiny gift each morning, leading up to Christmas, and it acts as our advent calendar. This year I've tweaked the numbers a bit, and instead of 24 little gifts, each of my girls has 19 - because we leave on the 19th to go to my parents' for Christmas, so it's a countdown to when we leave... and then they'll get the remaining 5 items while we are in Oregon, waiting for Christmas to come.
It's also a good way to manipulate the day you celebrate Christmas. Because of some of our family's schedules, we may not be celebrating Christmas and opening packages until the 27th, so if that's the case, I'll just add a couple more little gifts for them to unwrap, and no one is the wiser! I guess it helps that mine are only 2 and 5, so they don't know when Christmas is really supposed to be anyway! LOL!
I do - however, love your book idea, and I may have to steal it. Maybe we can add this tradition next year.
Hope you have a wonderful holiday season! XXOO,
-Val