Mother of two

Our Brand New Advent Calander
Sam typing our daily activities on strips of paper.
(Yes, this is my very messy desk)

The cute tins Liz and I put together!

It has been such a long time since I have done an all out

craft project. But this year I am feeling better mentally

than the last several Christmas seasons. So even though

I am terribly busy at work, I am trying very hard to

do fun things at Christmas, and not let everything

bog me down. Since Sam is in High School, I feel like

I have very few years left, so we are making them very fun!

I decided we would do a fun advent calander. Ofcourse I

still need to make sure they have treats in them every day.

Heaven forbid, the kids really don't change all that much do they?

Then the kids and I sat down together and made a list of all

the things we wanted to do this year, like watching our

favorite Christmas movies, making our favorite treats,

see the lights at the temple. Make gingerbread houses, ect, ect.

I was kind of surprised how excited the kids were to help. Even Sam.

Now ofcourse he could care less about cute paper, and such. He left

that up to Liz and I. But he printed and cut the stips out.

I put the strips in the containers, plus a few surprises of my

own. So they don't know everything. But we

are very excited for a fun holiday season!