Advent is coming up. In Germany this is quite the tradition. When I was little, we would get cardboard calendars that had one door for each day of December that hid a small piece of chocolate behind it. When I got a bit older I realized this chocolate wasn't very good tasting and that ended my fascination with the whole ordeal. We bought calendars for all of the guys in the dorm last year. Chocolate calendars were only about 50 euro cents in Germany! Anyhow, while we lived in Germany I would often go to a German new site that had the news in English. Close to Christmas I found this article about the craziness Germans go to concerning advent calendars. I'm sure not all Germans are this touchy about their advent calendars and I'm sure there's some joking going along, but nonetheless, its still a funny article.
Here's an idea, again from Homemade by Jill, on making your own advent calendars. Not as crazy and competitive as the Germans, but perhaps a fun tradition to start with your children this year. I think I'll save this for next year since I've got a huge list to accomplish this year.
She's still posting about making this calendar, but this is all she has up at the moment so you'll have to follow her on your own.
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