December 1st - Advent
Advent calendars were popular with immigrant families. They usually are comprised of little windows or houses with flaps to be opened each day of the month of December up to and including, Christmas day. Behind these flaps was a poem, scripture, fortune or piece of chocolate candy. Each day this would be a ritual to open the little door for that particular date and receive a reward or verse. Children relished this wonderful tradition, and families still celebrate the twenty-five days leading to Christmas with advent calendars to this very day.
Pulling the first tree off our new advent calendar
Bree still isn't fully recovered from the flu so much so that Daddy opened her advent gift.
Instead of a small piece of chocolate a day, we got semi-large chocolate Santas to eat. A little bit each day of course.
She couldn't even open her own present? She must have been sick!
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