Welcome to my day on the Advent Tour! Today, I'm sharing the tradition in our family for counting down the days until Christmas.
Years ago, when my kids were little, my mom gave us an old antique pop crate that she had fancied up a little. Then, in another box, she gave us several small items that would fit in the slots of the box. The box has exactly 24 slots, and she gave us 24 fun little things to put in it.... but one day at t time.
When the box if filled, Christmas is here! My kids have LOVED this over the years, and even as they've gotten older, they still find it fun to pick a little thing to stick in the box every night. Now, if we were better about stuff, we'd DO something to go along with it... like sing a song, or tell a story. But... we're doing good just to stick something in the box and go "Yey! One day gone!"
(Only now that box makes me crazy, because the days go by so fast and I need more time!)
Anyway, to share this with you, I decided to make a little video. It's VERY short, so I hope you take time to click on it and see how this works:
Years ago, when my kids were little, my mom gave us an old antique pop crate that she had fancied up a little. Then, in another box, she gave us several small items that would fit in the slots of the box. The box has exactly 24 slots, and she gave us 24 fun little things to put in it.... but one day at t time.
When the box if filled, Christmas is here! My kids have LOVED this over the years, and even as they've gotten older, they still find it fun to pick a little thing to stick in the box every night. Now, if we were better about stuff, we'd DO something to go along with it... like sing a song, or tell a story. But... we're doing good just to stick something in the box and go "Yey! One day gone!"
(Only now that box makes me crazy, because the days go by so fast and I need more time!)
Anyway, to share this with you, I decided to make a little video. It's VERY short, so I hope you take time to click on it and see how this works:
We love this tradition, and I hope to be able to find four more antique pop crates so I can make one for each of my kids so they can carry it on!
Merry Christmas everyone! Be sure to stop by the other blogs on the tour today:
Veronica @ The First Draft
Marilyn Meredith @ Marilyn's Musings
Nancy Sween @ Advent Calendar: Celebrate Meeting Jesus
Pam @ Bookalicio.us
What a great tradition (and idea!). Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! It's like an advent calendar in reverse!
ReplyDeletevery cool! what fun that must be for the kids. And great job on the video too!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun advent calendar! And a way cute video to go with it. Thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's great! Does everyone have their favorites that they demand to put in?
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Sprite... yes they do actually! It's pretty funny sometimes.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing! This is such a great tradition. My aunt had given my brother and I an Advent calendar when we were kids. It had a Christmas tree and pockets where all the ornaments were kept. Each year we'd trade off doing odd and even numbers, fitting one ornament a day on the tree. And that's how we counted down to Christmas Day. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great tradition! And you've never lost any of the pieces? amazing.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great video you made! very impressive.
(Do you watch Modern Family? I was hoping you would pop up at the end and surprise us, like the practical joke the kid plays on his step dad in the show. ha! If you aren't watching MF, you really need to, it's the funniest show on televsion.)
Love the idea, and LOVED the video. (Love that version of the Dance of the whatever it is from the Nutcracker, too.) Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteLoved your video! And the pop crate calendar is really, really lovely. I especially like the elf doing the splits.
ReplyDeletewhat a fun tradition--I hope you find some more pop crates. That would be great for your kids.
ReplyDeleteOh very fun! I really enjoyed how you put it together. Putting things into the box....my mother made an advent calendar for each of our two youngest, and this is the first year they have been doing it - they have the usual little toy hidden, that they get to take out on the day. they love it! I also like this idea, so I might do something where they can take the hidden toy and put it in a little shelf to show what they received on those 24 days.....very cool idea, thanks so much for sharing, Suey! Happy holidays to you and your family!
ReplyDeleteThat's such a cool idea, and well done on the video, too! So sweet :-)
ReplyDeleteHow totally adorable! I hope you have a merry Christmas!
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Aw, that's so cute! What a nice tradition.
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