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The Advent Calendar



The chocolate advent calendar was one of our favorite Christmas traditions growing up. When we were little girls mama always had an advent calendar for us. They were hard to find for a number of years so there were many years we shared a calendar. Jules would open one day, I would open the next. I hated sharing because I wanted the candy! I remember one year Mama only found 1 calendar and it was trinket toys and not candy, it did not go over so well with us girls.
Mama, Jules, the Fab Four and I all have an advent calendar we open each year. Most of the time we find them on the clearance rack after Christmas and place them in the freezer until the next year. Sounds real yuumy, I know. It doesn’t taste too bad, actually. It is always fun to remember whose freezer is housing all seven calendars. A fun game of hide and seek, for sure! I love that the fab four looks forward to each morning in December so they can open another door and get their chocolate candy for that day. It is so neat to see simple little traditions passed down with the same level of excitement.
Anna seems to be a lot like her Aunt Abby when it comes to the calendar (as she is with most all areas of her little life, poor sissy!) – she wants to get all the candy out on the first day! She of course shuts the doors back and I guess hopes the candy man will refill the missing pieces. Well, he doesn’t. When she wakes up and says, “Find 5 mama, open 5!” to find no candy it becomes a tearful morning for my little mini-me. Julie yells (the same message she yelled at me for 15 years)”Well, you shouldn’t have eaten all the candy on the first day! I have no sympathy for you!” Anna’s brothers took after their mama and they eat their candy one day at a time. Good boys.
I love the advent calendar tradition because it brings back so many memories of jumping out of bed to open the door of the day, seeing what shape the candy would be that day, fighting over whose day it was to open the door with Jules and listening to mama say, “Girls, it is December 1st. Time to start the advent calendar!” You know, she called me on December 1st this year and recited that same message! What a fun family tradition that I hope lives on forever.
Abby
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