25 Days of Christmas

 Ashley, my daughter,

 is a self-proclaimed sufferer of 

OCD,

Obsessive Christmas Disorder!

{I have no idea where she got that from...

hereditary perhaps???  ha}

Anyhow, 

she has been on Christmas overdrive since she got home for Christmas break,

and improvised a 25 days of Christmas Activities 

from others she pinned on Pinterest,

for David and Wesley.

Ashley made individual slips for 25 various Christmas Activities

and secured them around mini-chocolate bars.

The candy was a bribe

for the boys to participate! :)

Below, is a list of the Activities they'll be participating in.

One activity is pulled each day, sort of like Advent countdown.

25 Days of Christmas

• Family game night

• Start a new tradition of making Christmas ornaments.

 • Participate in Angel Tree or another charity drive where you and your family get a chance to give to others. 

• Movie night with favorite Christmas treats. Actually, Christmas movies all month long!!  :):-)

• Visit a Living Nativity.

• Decorate a gingerbread house.

• Play bingo with dollar store prizes.

• Make a Christmas card for a soldier. 

(If you don't know a soldier you can mail a Christmas card to Holiday Mail for Heroes,

 P.O. Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456)

• Bake a Christmas treat one day 

and the following day, visit an elderly relative or church member who needs encouragement,

delivering the treats to them. 

• Make snow globes

 • Hot chocolate and S'mores party

• Breakfast for dinner

• Drive around and look at lights in your community 

• Drive around and look at lights in a nearby city (x 3)

• Have a cookie decorating party. 

• Let the kids open a present on Christmas Eve -- new pajamas!

{Not only is this a fun tradition, 

but it ensures they will be dressed in cute PJ's for Christmas morning pictures.:}

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Ashley started on December 3rd, so she didn't have 25 activities,

but going Christmas Caroling,

reading the Christmas Story,

reading the Night Before Christmas,

and singing/acting out the 12 Days of Christmas would be great fillers, too!

And just a little FYI,

the arrangement on the kitchen table

was created with water-soaked Oasis Foam

and fresh greens from the yard.

The basket and gingerbread dish were both yard sale finds.

The basket was an old homemade strawberry picking basket,

and was $1.00

Gingerbread dish, ...$2.00!

The burlap table runner was one of my weekend finds at "Nest."

More pictures of Christmas to come...

If I can just get the light to cooperate, so that I can get some decent shots! :)

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