Playground Love

Our advent activities are well underway already. It’s hard to believe it’s December. I thought I might skip this one out this year due to sleep deprivation and feeling a bit taxed, but when I asked A what she looked forward to most about Christmas, she said that opening her envelopes each day was her favorite. So we obliged, but have done a stripped down version and have tried to incorporate family activities into the planning. Here is a picture of the calendar (the how-to is here) I made in 2010 and get to recycle year after year now!

Here’s what we have planned for the 24 days leading up to Christmas:

- pick out the Christmas tree with dad

-decorate the tree

decorating the house and tree

- bake cookies (and wrap them for pre-school friends)

yum- gingersnaps

Gingersnaps all wrapped up

- make gifts for Oma’s

- make a number of crafts from the Martha Stewart website

- sleep in new X-mas jammies

- get food for food bank

- write and mail a letter to Santa

- pre-school X-mas party

- decorate Omi’s house

- Science World to see the (X-Mas) dinosaurs. Ok this one’s not really x-mas related, but it’s been a while since we’ve been there…

-watch a holiday movie and eat popcorn night

- paint nails pink and green

- decorate special gift bags for women’s shelter

- get holiday books from library

-Bright Nights @ Stanley Park

eTC.

We have lots of plans this season! A sleep consultant came last week and I am hoping she will bring an early Christmas present involving sleep when she sends her recommendations.  I’ll add that to my own personal advent-to-do calendar!

xok

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