So this was supposed to be the Advent activity for today (decorating Christmas cookies for our friends), but Madeline didn’t want to help. So after the kids went to bed, I began decorating all the gingerbread men and sugar cookies. I stuck with simply white royal icing and a few gold and white sprinkles. I […]

Sorry for the lacks of advent activities the last few days. The kids got sick with sniffles, coughs, and a fever, so I have been busy and they have not felt up for activities. But now that they are on the mend ( just in time for Christmas, yay!), I have a wee but if […]

In addition to our advent activity crafts, I have also made a couple other crafts to help decorate the house. I already told you all about our mason jar faux snow globes, and today I am going to show you how I made this cute JOY sign for the wall.  I started with those cardboard/chip […]

Tonight we celebrated with hot cocoa, Christmas carols, and Christmas lights.  We loaded up the car with the family (minus Parker who was home with Brandon getting ready for bed) and headed out with fresh popcorn and hot cocoa to view some local neighborhoods Christmas lights. It was like our own trail of lights with […]

Yesterday for our advent activity we “painted” some ornaments. Which really meant we just swirled paint around in some clear plastic ornaments that I picked up on sale at Michaels.  We just picked our paint colors ( the Martha Stewart ones were the best but were slow to coat) and squirted them in the opening […]

Today we made gingerbread man pancakes! But not just any old pancake mix would do, I made some carrot banana gingerbread ones (see recipe below) and then we decorated them with whipped cream, sprinkles, and raspberries. So fun and healthy! Carrot, Banana Gingerbread Pancake recipe: 1 cup whole wheat flour  1/2 tsp ginger 1/4 tsp […]

Well, yesterday was a hectic day and I completely fell short and didn’t do an advent activity with Madeline. Sorry about that! But today we turned a cheap pool noodle and big pack of Christmas bows from Costco into a cute front door wreath.  It was as simple as duct tapping the noodle together… And […]

This morning I thought I would try my hand at making a Santa out of breakfast foods for Madeline. She helped me create this guy out of waffles, bananas, chocolate chips, and a red hot. I would have used a berry for the nose, but I didn’t have any 🙁 Still cute though!

Today’s activity was getting and reading a new Christmas book. The book we added to our Christmas collection was: And here is Madeline drinking her nightly milk (hemp milk) and getting read the story of little Rudolph. 

Another advent calendar that we are doing with Madeline is a Lego Advent. Madeline started to play with Legos about 6 months ago, and we have been having a bunch of fun creating things with her (especially my husband).  While looking online for fun gifts for her, he found a Lego advent calendar that had […]

While today wasn’t the official “lets bake a ton of Christmas cookies” day, I thought it would be fun to make some “just to eat them” cookies.  I found these cute kid and adult aprons and treat bag kits at Target ($ bin for the win!). Seriously cute right?! I figured today would be the […]

So I completely spaced yesterday (Mondays are our most hectic day trying to ship out all the orders from the weekend) and forgot to post about our daily advent activity. Sorry! Since I was so busy I didn’t have time to do a proper activity, but luckily I had prepared in advance and picked up […]