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I thought perhaps I wouldn’t write about our 25 Days of Christmas Advent activities and books. It’s busy enough to keep up with the activities and the books themselves. And, you know, all of the other holiday hoopla. It has been fun though. A lot of fun. And if I don’t write about it, at least once a week, I’ll forget things.
I’ll forget the things I should remember (timing, great ideas, ideas that should be scrapped). I’ll forget the things I want to remember (joy on faces, funny comments, the love). As such, a weekly post with the collage photos and blurbs about our experiences will make their way to the blog. Someday I’ll look back at this post and wonder if they were ever this little, if we ever had this much time and if the hustle and bustle of it all was worth it.
I assume I’ll say yes to the last question.
They were very excited to begin opening their Advent envelopes. When they learned that the box of book-shaped-presents under the tree would also get to be opened every night before bed, they were doubly excited. However, when they opened the first book, LittleBrother blinked at it and said, “We already have this.” I then had to go through the “we say thank you whenever we open anything, even if we already have it” and explain that most of the books were ones we already owned with a few others thrown in for surprise and fun. It took a few minutes of discussion, but they both eventually understood and thought it would be fun to see which book we would open every night. As always, they loved the Guernsey County Court House light show. Hot chocolate was only $0.50/cup as well, so we enjoyed an extra treat.
On days that FireDad is working, I planned to keep things easy. Hot chocolate is crazy easy, but apparently allowing them to put as many marshmallows at they want in their cup makes it the best activity. Ever. Tonight’s book, It’s Christmas, David was LittleBrother’s favorite and was met with great rejoicing.
Elf-ing someone was a lot of fun this year. BigBrother and FireDad picked our recipients. LittleBrother and I did the shopping while the other two were off deer hunting. Then we all put it together and took it off to the recipient’s house. As we didn’t want it to get caught in the rain, BigBrother called and said, “Ho, ho, ho! There’s a gift on your porch!” in his best Santa voice ever. BigBrother was especially tickled by this activity, and I’m glad they’re getting the concept of giving something to others and the joy of surprising friends.
Today we baked Candy Cane Kiss cookies. The boys unwrapped the Kisses while I mixed up the initial batter. They helped me cut up half of the Kisses and mix them in. All four of us then rolled out two dozen cookies. We got to have one for snack and, man, they are delicious. I froze a dozen for Christmas and we’ll snack on what remains of the other dozen between now and then. Our book, Llama Llama Holiday Drama, was a big hit as it was a Christmas gift book last year and they weren’t overly familiar with the story.
That’s a lot of stuff in just four days. I hope the next seven are just as wonderful for us as a family. I think in future years, I’ll have a lot more baking — with peppermint. Mmm.
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