23 days till Christmas 🙂 Can you tell I’m excited?

What traditions do your family have with the lead up to Christmas? We are slowly introducing our family favourites as the kids are getting a little older and are starting love traditions. We do always (and have for as long as I remember) watch Carols by Candlelight on TV on Christmas Eve and we always went to midnight mass. For the past few years we have gone to Christmas morning mass instead as I always had a child that was too young. (it’s hard getting 3 excited kids under 5 to settle and listen to a church service 🙂 !)This year, as the youngest is now 3 we will be going to midnight mass again. Our local Church encourages the little kids to get involved and dress up as Angels or shepherds.

Today my 2 little princes and princess sat down and wrote out all of their Christmas cards. They are now all ready to be posted tomorrow. I’m thinking some family members will be very suprised to receive them as I have been a little disorganised the past 2 years since having a shop – and its even weeks before christmas! And I have even printed off over 100 photos to add to the cards and send.

Today we opened the 2nd day on our advent calendar, and instead of a recipe or craft idea I have a little gift to hand out. The first person to get 5 new people to join our facebook page wins a pack of 8 packs of ribbon (total of 48m of ribbon!). They just need to mention who sent them 🙂

I have a very cute gift giving idea for you tomorrow.

See you then!

Marijke