The Inspire Me Sundays...25 days of Christmas!

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   Now it really starts to feel like Christmas on my side of the world (even though it's raining outside tonight...) Do you have snow where you live? We've been listening to holiday music all week and now my two-year old walks around singing "Purum pum pum pum..." ALL THE TIME!

   Last year we tried doing 25 days of Christmas. We enjoyed it so much that we decided to do it again this year. Because our kids are still small, we will mix fun with some more season appropriate activities like helping others and serving. So this what our list looks like so far:

Dec 1^st - Gingerbread house festival
2^nd - decorate the tree (see above)
3^rd- decorate the rest of the house
4^th- put up Xmas lights outside
5^th- pick out a toy from among their own to donate to DI
6^th-  decorate a Gingerbread house
7^th- Finish and mail all the Christmas cards
8^th- Church Xmas brunch/ Xmas dinner with my best friend
9^th- cut out snowflakes with the kids
10^th- watch a Nativity DVD together
11^th- ride the train in the mall
12^th- make a Christmas card for a teacher
13^th- food bank donation
14^th- watch Christmas show together
15^th- build a fort in the living room and read a Christmas book inside
16^th- Christmas lights downtown on Temple Square
17^th- learn about the symbols of Christmas
18^th- Road Home, take a donation for homeless families
19^th- unwrap a new book and read it together
20^th – bake cookies
21^st – deliver cookies/gifts to friends and neighbors
22^nd- take cookies to a widow
23^rd- house hunt to find the best decorated house and leave a plate of cookies on the porch for them
24^th- Read Luke 2/ unwrap new jammies
25^th- open gifts/ Yummy breakfast/ Xmas party with family. Have fun together!!

I realize we might not be able to do every single one of these things or we might have to combine/substitute some but we just want to spend a little more time together and have something for kids to look forward to every day and do things that they will remember as they grow older. We will hide a little note for each day in our advent calendar:

It's a fun house that somebody gave our family a few years ago. I will definitely post everything that will be worth posting, I promise :) As you can see above, we already decorated our tree. And yesterday we went to a Gingerbread house Festival. It wasn't very big but there were some pretty cool houses there like this one:

I'm really looking forward for the next 23 days with my dear boys (of all ages :) I really should post a picture of my husband here having fun decorating a cookie yesterday but I don't think he will forgive me that easily..:)