The Puddles

I saw this really cool idea online about taking 25 Christmas (or Winter books if you don’t have enough) wrapping them up and then every day you go and pick one book to read that night.  So a couple of nights ago, the kids and I started searching through book cases to find all of the Christmas books.  After looking through only half of our book cases we found over 50 Christmas and winter books (I didn’t realize how many duplicates we had.).  So we had to narrow it down (we just stuck to Christmas stories and we still had more than 25).  That was fun!  We finally found our 25 and then we all sat in the living room and wrapped all of the books.  Ainsley insisted that we have a fire and listen to Christmas music.  We settled on a fire and a Christmas movie (Santa Buddies).  We all had a great time!  Even Dad came home and joined us in the wrapping party.

The kids are taking turns picking the books. So tonight was Ben’s turn (he also got to tear off our advent countdown chain that we made at church).  He picked the book and then we sat by the fire to read.  Ben of course decided that there were too many girls at the fire and he joined Dad on the couch (look at the picture.  He’s trying not to smile. I don’t think it is working.)

So far we are having a great time with this.  What a great way to countdown to Christmas!