Advent Calendar

This year instead of our usual advent calendar filled with candy I decided to assign a different holiday activity to each day (an idea I got from this blog). I used the same small printed bags I made last year but filled them with slips of paper.

Here's our list this year:

1. Write a letter to Santa Claus
2. Buy a new Christmas book
3. Buy a Christmas tree
4. Host a Christmas party
5. Drink hot chocolate
6. Visit Santa Claus
7. Hang Christmas stockings
8. Preschool Christmas party
9. Leave a Christmas treat out for squirrels and birds
10. Draw a Christmas picture
11. Bake Christmas cookies
12. Sing Christmas carols
13. Get Christmas books from the library
14. Donate a toy
15. Make a gingerbread house
16. Make Christmas cards
17. Buy a present for Arthur
18. Christmas breakfast
19. Buy a new Christmas ornament
20. Take a drive to see Christmas lights
21. Wrap a gift
22. Take a family trip*
23. Go visit penguins at the aquarium
24. Leave cookies and milk out for Santa

I made sure to assign "big" events to weekends and days when I'm not working and to schedule activities around parties, travel, etc. Someday when our kids are older we can also add new things like holiday concerts, the ballet, or ice skating. I'm really excited about this month.

*To Dallas, that is.