I am so ridiculously excited for a few reasons!
1. I love christmas and this year we get to spend it with friends at home. Bring on the bbq lamb and champers!
2. The boys are going to love their christmas haul and bonus is I spent half what I usually do!
3. We head to Europe on the 29th so christmas will be the start of an exciting countdown............
and the best part of all is it means DH IS HOME! He's been overseas since May so its been a loooooong end to 2011 but we will be so so happy to have him back in our arms for good! And for christmas! Safe and sound
OP to make your advent calendar a bit more bibley so to speak have you thought of writting the story of Jesus's birth on little pieces of paper and putting one in each day. That way each day they get the next part of the story and an advent surprise.
Liviam- yes! Just posted in the thread OP started about some of the things it's having in it. It's going to have bible verses is each day and then an activity that's related.
Freya- Yay for having DH home for Christmas
Loving reading everyone's posts, getting me more in the spirit already
i love love love xmas. its my absolute fave time of the year. i shop all year so i have the presents sorted by the first week of dec and can enjoy the season then.
usually get chrisco and hamper king but they werent to my liking this year and were way too exxy so i put the money in a seperate account and will do an online grocery order or 2 (with that sort of money i could probably do 5 or 6) to come the weeks around xmas instead.
i got so preoccupied in big w the other day when i realised the xmas stuff was out already and i bought some cute little characters.
its just so exciting. it truly is a magical time of year.
i hope my dd loves it as much as i do when she starts to understand
We planned our advent calendar last night (we do events based advent where we do a Christmas activity everyday ... so excited), I pulled out my Better Homes and Gardens magazines and started planning my Christmas cooking, decorations and table settings. DH has started planning the kids games for our Christmas eve party that we have every year with our best friends and tonight we are watching our first Christmas movie (DH pulled out our Christmas movie collection last night but we got carried away planning advent and didn't get a chance to watch a movie).
I am going to Spotlight this weekend to buy fabric for the DD1 and DD2's December dresses. Every year, we make them a special outfit to wear to the carols, Christmas parties and other Christmassy things we do during December. Last year they needed two each because we were doing so much stuff.
We are Christmas lovers in this house ... I love this time of year!
Love christmas! and Im sure Ill be very excited about it once I figure out how to get out of this pickle I got myself into by double booking us to spend christmas with my dad and his wife and our inlaws WHOOPS
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