Comments on: Advent Begins

By: Leanne

Leanne — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:39:16 +0000

I’m laughing.

Um, Personally?

I just skipped all this and jumped right to the ‘give children chocolate’ note

Bad Mommy. Bad Mommy. But it is a Pottery Barn advent calendar so I do fill it myself….

Tomorrow? Two chocolates for each of them, three for me….

By: MomOnTheGo

MomOnTheGo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:32:51 +0000

I’m only 2 for 3 so far and I cheated on one. I didn’t have the activities ready for the 1st but wrote “get Christmas books out” after I had already done so in order that Reid would notice them when she opened the box for the 2nd – which was supposed to be a craft but we ran out of time. My husband read part of the Christmas story at bedtime tonight and I’m optimistic about getting the tree up tomorrow night. I’m glad Reid doesn’t anticipate her advent calendar as much as Gal Smiley does!

By: porter

porter — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:56:38 +0000

Ha! My kids are loving the advent calendar(s) too and I added in another ‘energizer’ to the already spazy hyper behaviour they are exuding…we have an ‘elf on the shelf’. not a realy one, but an elf who watches over the kids and reports back to santa. i’ll blog about it over the next few days but it’s made my kids super wild.

oh and a commenter on my blog (whom i might add is lovely creative and has six children) wisely suggested that i only put the advent activity message into the envelope the night before it is to be opened so that the activities are actually ‘doable’. we are keeping it simple…….and still, they are wild.

By: XUP

XUP — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:43:15 +0000

You should be more like my mother and threaten to cancel Christmas any time someone is the least bit disagreeable. That would ensure complete psychotic chaos by Dec, 25.