Thankful Day 29: Christmas Excitement

Today I am thankful to be celebrating Christmas with our boys. I have always loved Christmas, but now that we have Jack and Miles the holidays are magic. This week they helped me fill the 25 tiny drawers of our Christmas Advent Tree with holiday activities we are looking forward to in December. Here's what we came up with:

1) Pick out our Christmas tree

2) Decorate the tree

3) Add this year's Christmas card picture to our yearly album

4) Write letters to Santa

5) Bake cookies

6) Mail our Christmas cards (better get going on that!)

7) Watch a holiday movie with popcorn

8) Take a drive around town to look at Christmas lights

9) Make a Christmas surprise to Grandma Eleanor

10) Eat a candy cane

11) Read a Christmas story (or 10!) with Grandma and Grandpa

12) Have hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles

13) Do a Christmas craft

14) Watch a a holiday movie with treats

15) Decorate gingerbread houses

16) Bake cookies

17) Pick out and wrap a present for your brother

18) Eat a chocolate treat

19) Do a Christmas craft

20) Take a picture with Santa

21) Donate canned food to the food pantry

22) Take treats to our neighbors

23) Take a walk through the neighborhood to look at holiday lights

24) Put out cookies and carrots for Santa and the reindeer

25) Merry Christmas!