ADVENT DAY NUMBER SEVEN

So my daughter was off to her Dad's for the week, and I packed her chocolate filled advent calendar to go. That left two other calendars with drawers empty, so I thought. Not so. A cinnamon candy in one and instructions for my personal advent in the other. How amazing is that!

Here's what that looked like: (most of the boxes are empty to fill the space or house decorations), but there are two gifts in the right foreground that made one little girl feel a little closer to Christmas! I have packed our Christmas decorations in hat boxes and decorated boxes for years, and just put the empty tins and boxes under the tree until the gifts start stacking up.

I spent quite a bit of time as a kid guessing packages by feel, so it was fun to teach Rebecca to feel and smell and shake the packages to make a guess at the contents inside. It's like winning a lottery ticket, and spending the wins multiple ways. I wonder if putting them out this early will make it too tempting, and that one morning all the tape will be loose! Time will tell!

"Put a gift onder [sic] the tree (for Me)!"

This year, with a one year old cat who likes to eat acrylic trees, we set up in my daughter's bedroom. She is loving the night light!