Claire announced one day that Christmas was only a little bit fun but Easter is a lot of fun. (She loves Easter egg hunts and has empty egg hunts almost daily with Gramma around Easter-time.) But Christmas is HUGE! So I told her we'd come up with a Christmas Fun list to do something every day for Christmas. I tried to incorporate
Sundays, Monday night
FHEs, and other calendar items already. So far we've made candy cane reindeer, she made a gingerbread house at preschool, we took some friends to the
Creche Exhibit at the Palo Alto LDS church, and watched the First Presidency Christmas Devotional (access it through headline link at the
lds.org home page). The Creche and the Devotional were great ways to kick off the Christmas season for us! It reminds us what the season is really about - Jesus Christ, and why we are so happy that he was born so many years ago.
Here is our list.
Claire was so excited she started copying the list by hand onto another sheet of Christmas paper. After about 30 minutes and only 5 items later she abandoned it, but I thought it was an excellent self-created exercise in hand writing!
What does your family do to make Christmas fun and meaningful? I'm gathering ideas for next year. Next year I hope to get this into a real Advent Calendar.
In other news, Anson just told me "no" for the first time yesterday. I fear I'm starting into a new phase with him...
What a fun list! My family always went caroling and made sugar cookies on Christmas Eve. My plans for Miles are pretty low-key. We'll make cookies, read some Christmas books, and play with the crocheted nativity set my mom made. They had a really fun list at http://www.ourbestbites.com/2011/12/advent-calendar-ideas/ that you should check out!
ReplyDeleteThanks, E! Those blog ideas were great plus leads to so many other lists.
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