Actually, I love Advent, but now I find it's nice to ease into it. I've found I need to do 6 Advent things a day so that everyone can do something each day. Plus everyone has a paper calendar of their own this year. Plus putting hay in the manger. Plus, to start out, I need to strip all the walls... I love it all, but it's tough to do from a standing start.
We got back from Mumpy and Pa's Saturday night (Blue Streak blew the radiator on the way back, so we got home late). On Sunday I went digging through the Advent and Christmas stuff in the back basement in a wild effort to get my act together. I wonder if this is a metaphor for what the Second Coming is going to be like that for me...
Anyway, our 6 daily activities this year are:
1. The Advent House, full of Playmobil nativity figures and candy (6 pieces plus a figure behind each door).
2. The velcro calendar: faded and missing a piece or two, but we love it!
3. The Jesse Tree. This is doubling as our Bible time since each day goes through a part of salvation history in both the Old and New Testaments.
4. The ornament: a new Christmas decoration picked out each day!
5. Lighting (or just blowing out ) the Advent wreath candles.
6. This is new! A kid gets to pick one thing we all can do as a gift to God that day.
You can see pictures of everything Advent here.
I also love online Advent calendars! My favorite religious one is on Busted Halo, my favorite secular one is Boola and Kwala.
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