Today’s advent activity:
Churros, Hot Chocolate and The Grinch.
I cannot even tell you how cool this whole calendar thing has been. There’s already so much anticipation!
They’ve already established rules:
1) They open each box together.
2) No peeking ahead.
3) They immediately tell Amy and Adam what the activity will be and ask them to join us.
It’s so awesome how it’s making us focus, not just on the coming of Christmas, but on making some really great memories together and celebrating each day.
I love that.
So, I made the churros and the hot chocolate (and took my bows =D).
And then we watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Why that movie? (Because I’m a total dork, that’s why. But that’s not important right now. =D)
At the very end, and just before the credits, the director, Ron Howard, dedicates the movie to:
His mom, ". . . who loved Christmas the most."
(Shut. up. I really want to be that mom.)
I just bought that movie on Black Friday for $4.I am so in love with the avent calendar idea!
Marta, if I had a double-secret probation blog, I could write about how much my boyfriend’s parents hate me. I could tell you that one of the reasons they hate me is because of how I eat bacon. (I tear off the fat and eat the lean.) His dad thinks that’s “insulting.”I could tell you about my college friend’s divorce from the crazy woman who has told her kids he had sex with the dog and convinced their second-grader that my friend threw the second-grader out of the second-floor window two years ago and the kid had to climb up a tree to get back into the house.
I could write about my boyfriend’s ex-wife who has been making our lives miserable for the past year because of her refusal to sign the property settlement papers and her manipulations. Moral of the story for my boyfriend? Choose wisely. Don’t marry someone 13 years older with two kids whom you’ve known only nine months. It’s possible that she is using you.
I could write about how my mom put SH and me in the same bedroom (but separate beds) when we were there for Thanksgiving and how I thought this was a sign of the appocolypse.
And so on.
But I can’t write any of this stuff because the people involved read my blog.
C-F,So, have we tapped that MBFCF is going to be your double-secret probation blog?? This is really fun!
But I can’t imagine your boyfriend’s parents (or anyone else for that matter) hating you. Wish I was on one of your Road Trip stops so we could dish.
Kisses!
Marta
Marta, I’ve just joked about it, but maybe I do need a MBFCF blog! There are so many good stories out there that are off limits.If I ever do get to the OC, I do hope to get together with you! I also expect you to call if you are ever anywhere near Memphis or Milwaukee!
Abrazos,
Annette
PS I don’t understand the parents, either, although I don’t tend to be crazy about atheist socialists who think people who believe in God are stupid, so I guess we’re even. I have no idea how Chris turned out so well.
CF-I was thinking they were Jewish because of the Bacon thing . . .
I’m all for you starting a super-secret MBFCF blog! I just want to be in on the secret!