Well hello there! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Alex and I were home alone (the boys were with their Dad), so we invited Alex's family over. It was nice through dinner, then the gloves came off. Thats another story for another day though...
I bet you've seen Ali Edwards Advent Tags on the web, yes? Well I loved the idea of using them as a countdown for Christmas - but really couldn't think of a creative way for us to make them useful at our house. Well, fast forward to last night. I stumbled a package of mini kraft paper bags. (Cue angels singing!). Make them into a mini book! And so I did! I used my printer to print out the numbers, then punched them out with a circle punch. I layered the numbered circles on squares of Martha Stewart Christmas Paper. On the tags themselves, I wrote things that required ACTION. Doing good for others. On some days...usually once or twice a week, I added things like go get a hot chocolate, rent a christmas movie, etc. Fun things. My plan to put this mini book into action is to leave it in the car, and on the way to school each day, we can pull out that days tag and see whats in store for us. Hopefully this will give the boys something exciting to look forward to on the way to school.
(sorry about the bad lighting. Its super overcast (not to mention freezing!) and windy and its all I could do to get these taken!)
I will be back tomorrow with my December Daily Album! I cannot believe its practically December! Where did the year ago??
xxoo,
M
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