Advent Calendar

I am so excited... Every day it is more and more like Christmas... Even for me! I have memories as a child of my Grandma Lairmore sending us the paper village that you opened a door for each day and got a piece of chocolate... I always looked forward to seeing fewer and fewer doors to open... even though the chocolates weren't very tasty! I knew I wanted to do one for my kids... but I had to wait until they weren't so little! I have waited and waited to do an advent calendar until the kids were "old" enough...
I finally decided this year I would get it done!
I have searched for years... and if you know me... You know I saved pictures, cut out ideas in a magazine... Found a hundred choices and then had so much to chose from I didn't know where to start! That is only a small part of my disease!
This year I decided to JUST DO IT! I found a picture from Martha Stewart that were all these cute little baby socks and they all matched so nicely and looked just perfect hanging on the sweet piece of rope she had hanging in the doorway...
Well... I am not Martha Stewart... those socks are too expensive... and I didn't like the rope!
So... I found some socks in the dollar bins at Target and found some really well priced at Ross... Then sent Shawn out on another mission for a few more pairs. We were not allowed to spend more than a dollar a pair. Then I tried not to spend more than ten dollars total for the stuff inside for all three kiddos! We did it!
we took our very first Christmas tree from before we were married and turned it into an Advent Tree! I made tags for each day of the month and glued them to a clothespin... I filled the sock with something little for each child... and clothespined the sock to a tree branch!
It has been so much fun for the kids to hunt for the number... empty the sock... and see that they are one more day closer to Christmas!
I must say... I liked this idea even better than Martha Stewart! Here is some Jo Lynne Sprague!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!