Ok, so were well in to February now and i'm posting about Christmas. Its been a bit of a rocky start to the year, but hopefully things are looking up. This does mean that I am quite a way behind on posting up here and there are lots of draft posts, sitting half finished. I will try and get these up as soon as I can, so there may well be a bit of a spurt of posts over the next couple of weeks as I get caught up. This seem to be getting to be a habit, not posting for a while and them posting up lots over a short period of time. I need to get better at concentrating on this blog, as I do have a habit of prioritising my other hobby blog over this one. The young lady is now at nursery a couple of days a week however and we are coming back in to summer, which means that I should have some more time to blog in the future and try and drive this blog forward, as I've neglected it recently and viewing figures, although never huge, have dropped off quite a bit.
Anyway, on to the content of this post, and a step back in time, only about 3 months though, so nothing to extreme.
The wife decided that this year we would do something different for the kids Christmas advent calendars. It all stemmed from last year when my mother won a raffle prize of a set of 25 books, all wrapped up, to be used as an advent calendar. We used this with the little man and he loved it, getting really excited every night to be getting a new story book. So we decided to replicate it slightly, although we modified it by including some small toys and chocolates ( well it is Christmas after all ).
The calendars.
We did one for each of the kids and although the books were age appropriate, we filled the rest of the calendar with matching items, mostly to save on the arguments. The little toys were pretty basic, toy cars, squidgy frog/fish thing that pokes its tongue out when you squeezer it, googly eye toy, that sort of thing. There were 12 books in total including a special one for Christmas eve, 4 chocolate bars and the rest were toys, a nice little selection of items. It wasn't as though they didn't get enough chocolate over the advent period either!
7 chocolate advents
Yes, we really did have 7 chocolate advents and I don't like them! The wife ended up with two, as did the young lady. The little man however ended up with 3! As you can see, there wasn't a lot of variety either! It was a bit of a mission to keep everything in order though, as with so many the same, there were the inevitable arguments over whose was whose. I did solve this after several arguments by drawing big letters on the back to mark out who owned which one, but even then it got very confusing at times!
I do love the fact of how excited the kids get about all the Christmas stuff, but i'm not so sure that having 3 advent chocolate for breakfast each morning is particularly healthy!
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