Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Advent, the first post

It's December, which means that here in our house, we're fully embracing the Christmas season.

We went to my aunt and uncle's house for Thanksgiving, along with 3 of my siblings and their families and my parents and my cousins. It was a full house, and it was totally fun. And then, as per tradition, we went to get our Christmas tree the next day. Yay! We've always gotten the tree and set it up and decorated on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. A few years ago, we ordered a pizza and got it delivered, and the next year, the kids were all, "Are we going to get a pizza again? Brought to us in a car?!"  And with that, a new tradition of getting pizza delivered while we're decorating was begun.


We had to do all of the decorating quickly this year, because on Sunday, my entire family came to our house for dinner, and then we went to my sister Jackie's house for dessert. Next week we'll go to another sister's and my brother's houses, and then on Christmas Eve we'll celebrate at my parents' house. So by then we'll have seen all of the houses nearby.

And then December hit, which means that we got to start the Advent Calendars! Yay! I love Advent Calendars. This year we have, um...four. Two of them i made - one has an activity to do every day, and this year the other one has random facts about Christmas history and Christmas around the world. We got a Lego Advent Calendar this year (so fun!), and we have one that's online, where you open one new thing every day, and you can design snowflakes and decorate trees and do all kinds of other fun stuff. And this way the kids and i all get to open something every day.

Today's the fifth. So on the first, we started all of the calendars. On the second, we went to a craft fair. On the third, we (Katrina and i, because the boys both wanted to take naps) went to an open house at the Ford Museum, where there were trees that groups had decorated and beautiful Christmas quilts that people had made and cookies and carolers.


Yesterday we started doing Secret Santa. And today, Sinterklaas Day, the kids all put out their shoes for Sinterklaas. 

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