let’s be joyous!!

We light an advent wreath every sunday night…my daughter is only one, so I know she doesn’t really understand, but it forces my husband and I to take time out of the business of the holidays to remember to true reason for Christmas.

Something fun that we do for the holidays is “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” We choose a family, and each night for twelve days (ending on Christmas Eve) we secretly deliver a gift and leave it on their porch. On day one, we leave one gift. On day two, we leave two gifts, etc. We just do inexpensive things, like 3 ornaments, 4 cookies, or whatever. Usually we just keep it a secret, depending on who the family is. It’s a lot of fun for our family, and hopefully brings some joy to the receiving family.

That’s such a great idea Heather. Have the families ever found out it’s you?

So far no one has found out. Well – except for when we did this for my sister-in-law & her little kids one year – we told them in a note at the end.