The festivities have begun!

The 1st five days of our Advent are over already! Let me catch you up on what we have done so far..

So on the first day of Christmas we created a playlist! We included songs from Casting Crowns, Olivia Newton John, Martina McBride and Jewel.

The kids added songs from Destiny’s Child, Mariah Carey, Kari Jobe, Amy Grant, Pentatonics and more! 

So with day one done, we’re enjoying our Christmas tunes daily! 

On the second day of Christmas I had the kids write out their Christmas Wishlist! 

This year I am buying each of them something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read.. 

I loved Justine’s Wishlist the most! I’ll be laminating it and saving it forever, it was just perfect! (Justine, if you ever read this, go and look for it because I’ve kept it for us always to look back on!) 

On the 3rd day of Christmas we got too busy to do our planned advent but helped a friend do theirs! Justine and Nevaeh helped Natalie and Jaspa-Eli make paper chains writing the names of the people they care about on each link!

Not only that, but Nevaeh helped Nat decorate a cute little Christmas tree tree for her 92yo grandmother!! 

On the 4th day of Christmas Nevaeh made brownies using the ingredients she can eat (Nevaeh is on the FODMAP diet) while the rest of the kids enjoyed “trying” to build a gingerbread house! Needless to say, they decided to decorate and eat the gingerbread without it ever being a house! 

And today, we did a Christmas treasure hunt with a twist!

I wrapped gifts up and hid them in the backyard, each of the kids took it in turns to go out and find a present! Hiram was first, scoring himself a massive box of Oreo cookies!!! Justine was next and found herself a DIY dream catcher!!! Nevaeh was after Justine finding a MASSIVE jar of Nutella!!! Jeanette (who video called in) got Janai to go out and find her gift to which she chose to open and got an Electric Buzz game! Jie was next choosing to steal Hiram’s Oreos leaving Hiram with a new gift to open. He opened a fan spray gun! Last of all Janai found the last gift but chose to take Nevaehs jar of Nutella! Nevaeh lost her shit, opened her gift with was a singing teddy and proceeded to winge, bitch and moan for the next hour and a half solid!  

Here’s a few pics for us all to remember.. 

To be continued.....