The advent calender. Awaiting the coming of Christmas Day with little gifts and fun stuff. It is one of our favorite things to do during this season.
About four years ago I spied a beautiful advent calendar in a kids catalog. It had really large pockets to hold the gifts. I thought this was an answer to my problem. My problem being that I like to include gifts on a larger scale in the calender each year. If I cannot fit them in the teeny tiny pockets of say a more traditional calendar it just won't work in my ballgame.
Why even have the calender if the items dont fit right? So I made one like the catalog with really big pockets. Even now I still at times have items that do not fit and have to be placed on the mantle. I have issues. But that's another story for another time. I regress. As always.
The boys love our Advent calender. Really, really love this. Here they are watching me fill it on November 30. They couldn't wait to start the new month. I also plan to do this until the boys are off and married one day.
Wait. Off and married one day?? I mean umm.. I dont now what I mean cause they are never actually getting married right. No never.
I can only imagine what I will find to put in the calender when they are ages sixteen, eighteen or even twenty. Things for their cars perhaps. A gas giftcard. Movie tickets for them and their friends. Or maybe stuff for them to give to their girlfriends.
But for now they love the little boy things I give. Boy do I love that too.
They truly enjoy a new surprise each morning. With out fail the first words out of Morgan's mouth each day are "Can we do the advent calender"?
He likes the toys and candy best but as the years have passed I have learned to include educational items as well as special outings that they enjoy.
One item this year is a grow your own Spruce Tree kit. These tiny seeds may well be our Christmas tree next year. You just never know. Think big people. Think real big!
The boys also recieved this.
We already own the game and we are usually in hysterics halfway through a round of You Gotta Be Kidding!
The books contains oodles of "Would you Rather" questions that once asked are sometimes nearly impossible to decide.
One of the things the boys do regularily is remove the cards from the original boardgame just so we can sit around and read the questions to each other. The cards are always laying all over the house in disarray so when I spotted this book I thought it a perfect advent gift. All the crazy questions conveniently bound together in one compact mini book. Genius!
Now we can sit around all day and ask each other nutty questions like this.
Thought provoking right?
Or there is this one.
Tough decision I think.
Or how about this.
Like grody to the max! Who sits around and thinks these things up?
You would be amazed at what your family members choose. Really you would. And their reasons for choosing the way they do. We all get really freaked out and stuff.
I always think I know what everyone else would choose but I am always surprised. Really you have no idea what someone will choose. Seriously.
After an explanation is given we are usually shouting to one another "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING"! Go figure.
Then Austin called me out and asked this one.
And I laughed.
I laughed, and laughed and laughed.
I laughed like a hyena on crack. Because quite honestly if I seriously would have had a choice in this matter I would have made it a loooooong time ago.
Then I laughed one more time.
Everyone needs a good laugh. And one of these books is just the thing to do it. They would make a great stocking stuffer.
Christmas is almost here folks. Go have some giggles with your loved ones.
Love you all.
The Sideline ( I would have chosen the dishes) mom
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