We've decided that instead of a "regular" advent calendar we'd create our own.
I recently read on another blog that they created ideas to do each day, wrote them on paper, place them in a jar and pull one out each day to celebrate getting one day closer to Christmas. A few days during the month are already "pre-scheduled" like our Church choir concert, our town Christmas Parade, a local town's Birth of Jesus live reenactment (with animals and all!!) Other than these specifically dated activities each day will have a special activity that will be picked out of the jar by Anne Marie.
We've decided to do 23 days because our Christmas Eve and Christmas day are sooooo very busy and full of already created traditions that we want to keep - so we are doing 23 "activities" to chose from starting 12/1 ending 12/23.
So far this is what we've done:
1st -Went to our town's local Christmas parade!
We invited good friends of ours to join us @ the parade.
Both Family's braving the *COLD* to see the parade!
Finally happy to see the parade start & see "Noah"!
2nd - Created Anne Marie's Grandparents special Christmas Cards
Special Christmas cards for the Grandparents. (But of course we can't show them, just in case one of them sees the blog before we get a chance to deliver them!! But I can tell you they are a cute piece of "art-work"!)
3rd - Bought our first quart of Egg-Nog & watch a Christmas Show
Our EggNog - YUM! We had it while we watched a Christmas show. As you can see we gave her VERY little -- but let me tell you, she almost licked the glass clean!!
4th - Make Christmas Cookies
Ready to make cookies!! Also, having too much fun putting sprinkles on!!
Enjoying our cookies after lunch (even Daddy shared with us today, because he was able to come home for lunch!! YEA!!)
We've already drawn for tomorrow and we're going to get our ornament for the year! I'm excited about this one! I think we're going to buy an ornament that will go on our tree that we've planned on putting downstairs .. our tree upstairs is almost full and I'm ready to create some great memories with a new tree with Anne Marie!!
1 comment:
Kylie was a huge fan of egg nog too! How funny is that? I like your advent idea ~ we may have to do the same in the future...
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