Christmas Activities Advent

The first weeks of December are some of our favorites all year.  One of the ways we count down to Christmas is by hanging an ornament on our advent tree each day, from December 1 to 24.  This year there's a slip of paper with the ornament in each pocket telling something big or small we will do that day.  Here's our list this year:

25 - Phew, Christmas is here!  Mom gets to put her feet up for 10 minutes
24 - Christmas Eve party at our house!
23 - Paint nails
22 - Special family outing (which turned out to be breakfast at Kafe Leopold and later in the afternoon, a visit to the "real" Santa @ Merrifield Garden Center)
21 - Visit the National Botanic Garden's holiday display!
20 - Caroling with neighbors @ night
19 - Art Day - make some new ornaments!
18 - Mom and Poppy visit classes to make gingerbread houses
17 - Go bowling for Family Home Evening
16 - Christmas program at church
15 - Christmas shopping with Grandma!
14 - Hazel's Nutcracker performance tonight
13 - Happy St. Lucia Day! Leonardo learning night @ school; eat a candy cane after dinner
12 - Happy Hanukkah!  Play dreidel with Hanukkah gelt after dinner
11 - Poppy goes to the Tiny Tots concert (at my old high school)
10 - Last day of ballet!  Well done, dancers!
9 - Young Men (from church) come over for lunch; watch a Christmas show before bed
8 - Buy & decorate our Christmas tree
7 - Jordan babysits tonight (while Mom & Dad go to a holiday party) - open THREE books at bedtime!
6 - Happy St. Nicholas Day!  Check your shoes for a treat! (tubes of mini M&M's; they went in lunchboxes)
5 - Have hot chocolate with breakfast
4 - Sing a Christmas carol (Joy to the World)
3 - Dinner @ Silver Diner (PTA fundraiser)
2 - Tithing settlement with the Bishop
1 - Piantanida's Christmas party (neighbors) and Freya's 1st birthday (cousin)