When I was growing up we went to a church that celebrated Advent!! I loved the beautiful displays and the anticipation that it brought to the Christmas holiday!! I feel like with how commercialized Christmas has become, Advent helps to turn the attention back to where it belongs, on Jesus!
There are all kinds of advent calendars that you can purchase with little candies or toys in them but I saw this super cute idea on a friends blog last year and knew it was the way I wanted to do our version of the advent calendar! I have bought and wrapped 25 Christmas books, most about the nativity story but a few just generic ones. Each night up through Christmas day the kids (mostly Maddox right now) get to pick a book that we will read before bed. I think it will be a super fun tradition for our family and I can't wait to start tomorrow night!!!
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Holly this is a wonderful idea! O to remember the real significance of this time of the year!!
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