We are now entering my favourite three weeks of the year - I think I enjoy the run up to Christmas as much as (more than?) the day itself. We have daft numbers of things to get done, concerts and plays coming out of our ears, but in the middle of it all one of our most important traditions is an activity advent calendar. These abound in blogland, and in the past I have used a rather ugly fabric calendar to contain the ideas - but this year I braved papercraft - it turns out even I can stick festive stickers onto little white envelopes and dangle them from the banisters.
So given that the time may be approaching when my elder girl is no longer excited by this kind of thing, I was thinking I might have a go at saving our fun and games for posterity and posting a little picture every day of what we've been up to. There may be very few words, there may be lots. It depends. I may fail completely and delete all evidence of previous posting, ahahahaha!
None of the activities is terribly original, and I don't claim that any were entirely my idea. This was today's:
Love silly fun! I'm looking forward to seeing what you get up to.
ReplyDeleteSilly fun is the best sort!
ReplyDeleteHow Fun! I'll be looking forward to seeing all the fun you're having this month -- thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteAlready looking forward to seeing what's next! K x
ReplyDeleteI agree - silly fun it has to be!
ReplyDeletePomona x
Love the thumbprinting! Oh no your blog advent calendar is going to be so much better than mine ... !! Will be watching every day to make sure you post something ;-)
ReplyDeleteI love your advent calendar! You are making me wish we had stairs so we could hang ours there too!
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT! Ax
ReplyDeleteSilly fun is the best kind!
ReplyDeleteJust found you via Daisyley, I'll be back :D
oh fun xxx
ReplyDeleteOh, I love the thumbprint pictures! Such a cute idea!
ReplyDeleteR x
I'm spending the run up to Christmas at yours next year.
ReplyDeleteSo often the enjoyment of the approaching day is marred by all of the dashing about and panic buying so well done you for making time to celebrate the small and simple joys that the season should really be all about. You have 2 lucky girls to have such a down-to-earth, creative mum xxx
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of an activity calendar but always found that I failed to actually achieve the activities we planned! I always have bigger aspirations than I am able to manage so I am in impressed awe of your lovely calendar and plans! Lucy xx
ReplyDeletei think this is such a great idea...
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