For the next several days I will be posting about the World Congress of Families. This year it is being held in Sydney, Australia.  Remember how we helped to raise funds for Angela to attend? She is sending daily reports of the presentations, interviews she is able to have, and more. I am excited to share with you what she is experiencing. There are so many around the world - politicians, religious leaders, community organizers, trained professionals, and others - who are dedicated to defending the family. I will try to post each day's events in order so you are not reading them backwards as you scroll down. I have broken up Angela's summaries into several posts so it isn't overwhelming to see a HUGE post. Remember, if you have any questions you would like her to ask when she gives her interviews, leave them in the comments and I will pass them along to her.

Grandpa's Advent Calendar


This advent calendar was made by my dad several years ago. He used wooden office supply drawers typically used for the top of desks, attached knobs to the fronts of each drawer and then numbered and decorated them to match our tastes. If you look closely you can see our brand. The first year Grandma and Grandpa filled each drawer with either candy or some other item like silly straws, hot cocoa mixes, and pieces to a small Nativity set. Each drawer also contained a passage of scripture that had to do with the Christmas story.Every year my folks send out a few things for the advent calendar, usually a new Nativity set, and then Mr. Ferrero Rocher and I fill the rest of the drawers with goodies or activity suggestions. This has become a wonderful tradition counting down the days to Christmas that involves family from far away.

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12 comments:

  1. I've loved all the fun advent calender ideas today...so inspiring!

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  2. Cute! I absolutely love advent calendars, and we seem to accumulate another one each year. This is a fun idea for a large family, you can fit lots of special small treats in each drawer.

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  3. I love advent calendars and this one is amazing. If only I had such talent!

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  5. Great idea! A nice tradition for you and your parents.

    Hope you had a lovely birthday!

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  6. That is such a neat idea. I love that they can send you goodies for the drawers each year.

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  7. I like the bees on there. What a beautiful advent tradition.

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  8. That is amazingly cute--I bet the children LOVE it when that one comes out.

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  9. um for parents that are reading this. mine need to be filled. ahem. I don't have the diligence to fill them myself. :-D The kids keep checking the boxes to see if anything's in them yet. :-)

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  10. I really like this idea. It brings together many of my favorite advent ideas in to one tidy, beautiful, original advent calander. Thanks for sharing!

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  11. This is such a cute idea! I was thinking of doing some from www.craftydaisies.com, but I really like this idea, too. Maybe I'll try one myself. :") I'm going shopping today, I'll keep my eyes on the lookout for some little drawers like these!
    Is your brand the little 'flying' W? Do you have a post about that that I can read? Hmm... :") Cute!

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  12. it is very cute.. you are very lucky... I should see if i could do similar...

    lots of fun with that one

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