Kicking off Xmas

Advent doesn't begin until tomorrow, but we kicked off our 25 days of Red Envelope activities today.  I am being a bit more ambitious this year with how much we are trying to do b/c we might not be able to do much with a 9 month old next year.  Even though we've lived in St. Louis before doing it with kids is a whole other thing. 

Our box holding the envelopes--found it at JoAnn's.

 

Day 1

 

Pretty Xmas paper...it's the little things that make me happy.

 

Day1: Celebrate the Nativity

 

Start reading our advent books (b/c they go 25 days, but Jesse tree starts tomorrow (even though I wrote it here--oops).  Bonus activity--Christmas on the Hill.  We are going to the Italian neigborhood of St. Louis for their Christmas extravaganza.  All the shops have Nativities in their windows, they hand out Salamites (some secretive Italian treat), chestnuts, you can do carriage rides, and a free concert. Not sure how much of it we will do, but we are going to head down this afternoon to walk the storefronts and eat dinner at a yummy Italian restaurant for sure. 

 

We've already discussed our Nativity this morning and read about the Holy Land.