It’s officially December! If you haven’t already guessed, I love love Christmas time, and now I can be as Christmassy as I want without anyone telling me it’s too early! Last week was the start of the Making Magical Christmas Memories challenge, and I was so happy to see so many great Christmas posts sharing what everyone has been up to! I just can’t wait to see what everyone has to share this week!
In our house this week we have made some really simple Christmas ornaments together (blog post to come on this on Saturday), had a very special guest arrive, and we got out our Advent Calendar yesterday to start counting down to the big day.
It made me so happy to see how excited the children were about opening the first drawer of the calendar. Even the girls, who didn’t really know what was going on, had big grins on their faces and were bouncing up and down on their toes.The special Advent activity for the day was: read a Christmas story.
I loved each and every post everyone shared last week, and I just had to feature some of my favourites:
A Litte Space Like Home had some festive fun with Christmas playdough
Marita from Stuff with Thing and her beautiful daughter had some true Christmas spirit sending off a Christmas care package to our Defense personnel serving overseas 
Learning 4 Kids had fun sponge printing some gorgeous home-made wrapping paper 
and Trish from My Little Drummer Boys and her sons had a magical visit with Santa
What magical Christmas memories have you been making this week? If you’re a reader please share in the comments below or on the Facebook page, and if you blog join up in the linky below, it will be open all week.
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- Add the link for your Christmas post below
- Pop into some of the other blogs linked up and spread some Christmas cheer!
December 2, 2011 at 7:25 am
Hi Kate
I’m finally getting around to posting some of my Christmas posts. Thanks for hosting.
Anne @ Domesblissity xx
December 2, 2011 at 11:28 am
Love ti all – I may just have to make some christmas playdough this year – My kids are almost 7 and 8 1/2 and I hope they don’t ever tire of playdough. so much fun and so cheap to make! This might be my last year eeking out this activity… (sad)
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December 2, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Once the tree is decorated tonight, bring on the Christmas posts!!
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December 2, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Hi Kate! Thank you so much for featuring learning4kids! xx This linky is such a wonderful idea…..I have been discovering lots of new blogs and great ideas! Thank you for hosting
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December 2, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Our tree has been up since Sunday, and the lights have been twinkling ever since! Love it.
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December 2, 2011 at 10:14 pm
So many great Christmas posts and ideas of things too do and so little time
thank you for the shout out.
December 3, 2011 at 6:30 am
Thank you so much for stopping by and inviting me to link up my ornaments post. I’m excited to see what is linked up this week. I will be your newest follower and fan on Facebook
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December 3, 2011 at 8:39 am
Yay! I must turn the lappy on and get my post up and linked!
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December 4, 2011 at 10:55 am
Thanks for the invite! I tweeted it for you!
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