Christmas time- as you all probably know by now- is my favorite time of the year! Seriously, Cole gets a little bit (okay, maybe aLOT) annoyed about how much I love it, and how much I like to do! But my whole life has been filled with Christmas memories galore, and I am having so much fun recreating lots of those with my children! One of my most favorite memories of growing up was "The Box". Let me explain. Each day- starting December 1st, my mother would hide a box in our house somewhere and inside of the box was just a little something for us to have/do/play with on that day. Most of the time it was really nothing- a pencil, a piece of chocolate for each of us, a pez dispenser, etc. But some days, it was something really fun and exciting! Like the first of December it would be our Advent Calendar that we could hang up. The day after that it would be all the ornaments for the tree and we would put the tree up that night. The day after that it would be the Christmas books and we would all curl up on the couch and devour all of our Christmas books. It might have been the Gingerbread house stuff to make Gingerbread houses that day. We all absolutely LOVED (and maybe still do!) finding the box. That was the funnest part about it, so I was so excited to recreate a few of these memories with my boys. BOY did they love it! They had so much fun finding it every day, and of course, so did Cole! Lincoln and payton would NOT find the box until Cole was home from work and could help them find it. SO fun! So here are a few of the things that the boys found in the box and they were able to do.
Coloring our "Santa's Beard" Advent calendars. Each day they got to put a cotton ball on Santa's beard to complete the ensemble!
Decorating Sugar Cookies (cookie cutters and frosting stuff found in box)
YEAH for cookies! Didn't get much frosting on the cookie, but sure ate alot! :)
Intent on his cookie- can't look up mom...sorry!
Painting ornaments...wow these ones turned out great! :)
Such concentration!
I LOVE the box, and Payton still asks to find it every day! Next year buddy, next year. Don't worry, I can't wait either!
1 comment:
What a great idea! I'm the same way about Christmas, but I've gotta think up some fun traditions in the next year or two to pass the bug to our kids :) Love you!
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