Things to do at Christmas

Our Christmas Advent Calender

We have things to do as well as little treats in each pouch of our calender. Here's what we are going to do this year:

Put up the Christmas tree & decorations

Send out Christmas cards

Pick out a new ornament

Wear Christmas pjs to bed (I like to do Christmas pjs early in the month so Hiccup can wear them as much as possible)

Put our shoes out for Sinterklaas (you can read about our Dutch tradition here)

Have fun with cousins at the Bailey Chirstmas party

Watch Elf

Have hot cocoa & toast

Go shopping for our little angel girl (depending on the year, if we don't have enough to pick an angel we donate $ to the bell ringer's bucket)

Pick out a new Christmas book

Kiss under the mistletoe (we bought a new decoration this year and have to test it out)

Read a Christmas storybook by the tree

Visit the city lights

Have an adventure and sleep away from home (Hiccup stays with his cousins while we stay overnight in a hotel for my work Christmas party)

Watch Home Alone

Play in the snow (make a fort inside if there isn't any snow)

Make Christmas cookies

Watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Read a Christmas storybook before bed

Get cocoa to go and drive around neighborhoods to look at lights

Breakfast with Santa 

Read the nativity story from Luke

Watch The Santa Clause

Read the night before Christmas

Some other things I'd like to do once Hiccup gets a little older include: visit a live nativity, visit an elk farm (a friend of mine suggested this and I remember doing it once when I was little), build a snowman, have a snowball fight. 

Some of our other favorite Christmas movies are Mickey's Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, Miracle on 34th Street, The Grinch, Jack Frost, Prancer, and the little puppet classic Christmas stories.