Days 15-21

Yes, I'm just slightly behind.  It always seems as if the last week or so before Christmas things start to snowball, with shopping to finish, gifts to wrap and complete, parties, advent activities, and oh yeah, that thing called day to day life.  Things around here have been busy, in a good way, and while we have mostly kept upon our advent activities, I have not kept up on the blogging.

Day 15 - make reindeer, which we did on our play date with Ethan, courtesy of a cute little foam reindeer kit from Michaels.  Almost a week later we are still picking tiny brown foam squares off of EVERYTHING in the house.

Day 16 - watch A Christmas Story, which would have happened had I actually made arrangements to either rent or DVR it.

Day 17 -  attend Live Nativity, which we did, and it was amazing!  It came at the end of an uber-long, busy holiday season day, and was just the perfect thing to kick off the last week before Christmas.

Day 18 -  watch Mr. Kruegers Christmas.  Again, lack of preparation on my part = epic failure.  At one time we owned this movie, but when we went to watch it, for the love of money I couldn't find it anywhere.

Day 19 - sing Christmas carols.  This one we didn't make a big deal out of, because we have been singing   NON STOP to our John Denver/Muppets Christmas CD.  All. Weekend. Long.

Day 20 -  read a Christmas book.  This has been in our list earlier in the month, and is a nice no-brainer activity that the kids still love.

Day 21 -  make Christmas trees.  Alas, another snafu.  This was supposed to be on the 22nd, as the 21st was Brian's night with the kids and he is not much of a crafter.  The 21st was supposed to be watch Rudolph, which we did, and we'll hopefully do the trees tonight.