I received a fabulous present in the mail the other day. It’s Michael W. Smith’s It’s a wonderful Christmas CD. And fabulous, it is. In fact, you can listen to snippets of the album if you click on that link there. My favorite song is “Christmas Day” with Mandisa. If you need some new Christmas music to listen to while you decorate that tree or make cookies, check it out.
Today I put up our Christmas countdown calendar. It’s a cute little Santa with 25 pockets. I used to just fill every pocket with candy, but now since there’s 5 kids, I can’t really put 5 candies in every little pocket. That just wouldn’t fit. So in some pockets there are candies, but in others there are little pieces of paper labeled with the fun thing that we are doing that day. Today’s paper said “Go to Italo’s Christmas show”. Italo is Julene’s step-son, and he’s in “Return to Christmas”, a Christmas variety show at the Scera Theater in Orem. It was lots of fun. We really enjoyed the show, and the kids were even very well behaved through the whole thing (popcorn helped).
Some of the other pockets have little cards that say things like: make cookies, wrap presents, sleep in sleeping bags by the Christmas tree, go see the lights at Thanksgiving point, read a Christmas story, watch a Christmas show, go to Mom’s Christmas concert, deliver gifts to the neighbors and things like that. I hope that the little clues will be just as well received as the candy is, but we’ll have to see about that.
I have enjoyed this CD!
That Santa sounds so cute!