Christmas countdown

Since it's now December, we have started our countdowns.

First, our Christmas books.  I have blogged about this before, and it is still one of our favorite things.  My mom started giving us a Christmas book on Christmas Eve in 1993.  We unwrap one each night and read it.

Our stack of Christmas books this year

The other countdown we are doing is an activity advent.  (I'll see how this goes doing two things each day.  Hopefully we haven't overextended ourselves.)  About 5 or 6 years ago I found this countdown at Marshall's.

There is supposed to be a star attached on a string that moves around counting down the days till Christmas.  Well, we lost the star this year.  So I got the brilliant idea of putting a slip of paper in each pocket with an activity on it.  Here's what we are doing:

1. Spaghetti Factory and Temple Square
2. To Grandma's for a special FHE
3. Watch some of the Christmas Devotional
4. Make paper countdown chains
5. Write letters to Santa
6. Christmas craft
7. Watch Polar Express and have "Polar Express Hot Chocolate"
8. Shopping trip with Mom or Dad
9. Watch Luke 2 with Breath of Heaven
10. Look at Christmas Lights
11. Make Snowflakes
12. Teacher Presents
13. Thanksgiving Point Lights
14. Make Goodie Plates
15. Watch Elf
16. Play a game and listen to Christmas music
17. Gingerbread houses
18. Christmas coloring page
19. Watch Charlie Brown Christmas
20. Sledding
21. Watch The Grinch
22. Make reindeer food
23. Make sugar cookies
24. Get the house ready for Santa

I'm looking forward to a fun December!