Happy December!
We’ve been getting into the Christmas spirit (and packing up all the orders from our awesome Lid sale)!
Last night was our First Day of December Advent Dinner.
We do our advent activities at dinner time so the whole family can join in the fun.
aka Hot Hubby leaves for work before sunrise.
Decor: (everything bought that day at The Dollar Tree $16)
~Giant gold star hanging from the ceiling fan
~Three big stockings instead of a table cloth
~Two cake plates with three sparkly Christmas trees, a glitter bell and mason jar filled with peppermint stick straws
~Simple paper name cards above glitter ornaments – Christmas trees for the boys and angels for the girls
~Finished off with “snow” beads
Menu:
~Chicken and Squash stir fry (honey and soy sauce dressing… SO yummy!!)
~Whit rice
~Edamame
~Strawberries
Served in beautiful crystal. (Wish I had a good pic of the serving dishes.)
Cora Jane was very impressed with the “sparkly party hats.” They turned out to be so much more than a center piece.
We have done a lot of things for advent – paper chain countdown, chocolate, advent wreath… This year Eli got a Star Wars advent calendar (so wrong but so fun). I felt so bad that he was going to get a lil’ something everyday so we put together a lil advent countdown of our own for Cora Jane.
You’re only a kiddo once.
To counter all our worldly heathenism we are doing Truth in the Tinsel.
LOVE IT!
It’s only $4.99 and it’s 24 days of curriculum and ornament instructions. My hubby loved teaching the children about the Light of the World and the children loved making their candle ornaments…
The End
Do you celebrate advent?
Any great ideas?
(how could I not put a pic of this little gal in the post!)