Third Day of Christmas- Advent Calendar Review
First things first… after I wrote yesterday’s post about our, ahem, rocky Boxing Day, I picked up my book and this was on the first page I read: “Having a mother helps you speak without thinking. It allows you to trust in your most awful self, to yell and scream and cry, knowing that your mother will still love you by the end of it. In her teens, Phoebe was regularly astonished by how awful her friends were to their mothers, and their mothers just took it, because the mothers knew that sometimes they were awful, too. The mothers had made their own mistakes.” Well. And what’s that I used to mark the passage? Oh! It’s a book dart from my “Books are Magic” advent calendar! This advent calendar was so cute! Full disclosure: I’m not quite to the end of it. I kept forgetting to open doors, and I’m only up to Day 23. I was going to open the last three today just to finish it for this post, but I couldn’t bear to see it end. If there’s anything mind blowing in the last three days, I’ll share it in a later post. In the beginning I wasn’t really sure how I felt about it- there were a lot of things that were fun, but seemed kind of, well, useless. But overall, I think I will use most things. I love this ornament: …and this bookmark. The “to and from” stickers actually got used on Christmas Eve- my husband was wrapping gifts and realized we had run out of labels. Advent calendar stickers to the rescue! Overall I was happy with this calendar. I can’t remember the last time (if ever?) I got an advent calendar for myself, but I want to get another one next year. (Not the same one, obviously- I’ll be open to suggestions!) The cat advent calendar from Target was kind of “meh” for me. Maybe I’m just getting old, but it was hard to find the correct door to open- I was constantly squinting at the calendar grumbling “Where’s fifteen???” Then, when you did open the door, you had to cut open another plastic window to get the treats out (as opposed to the Trader Joe’s calendar I’ve used in the past, where you just took the treats out of their compartment, already in a little package.) On the plus side, there were a variety of treats and the cats loved them all. But they love all treats, so that’s not really saying anything. Next year I’ll probably go back to the Trader Joe’s cat advent calendar, if I can find it in stock. Did you do an advent calendar this year? Do you ever do one?