Pink Hair Girl » presents http://www.pinkhairgirl.co.za Life is more fun with Pink hair! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:08:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 We are all ready for Christmas http://www.pinkhairgirl.co.za/2009/12/01/we-are-all-ready-for-christmas/ http://www.pinkhairgirl.co.za/2009/12/01/we-are-all-ready-for-christmas/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:30:45 +0000 Pinkhairgirl http://www.pinkhairgirl.co.za/?p=466 I remember the most exciting thing to do each morning in December was to leap out of bed and check the advent calender my mom had made each of us. The presents were always tiny, a pencil, a chocolate, a coin etc but knowing she went to the effort to make them and buy all the little gifts to count down the days to Christmas with us in this special way is a memory that I will remember for ever.

It is a tradition that I now do with my kids, first Rachel and now this year Caleb is old enough to have his own advent calender which I made for him yesterday all ready for 1 December. I had fun shopping for the tiny gifts that will fill each tiny sock as we count down to Christmas together. This has been a big year of change for the 3 of us and while being a single mom is not easy and I know there are things they need in the future I might not be able to provide, for now we have survived and we are stronger and we are happy.

The calendars on my bed with example’s of the stuff that will go into them
advent calendar

advent calendar

On the cupboard with today’s gift – they woke at 5am to get it!!
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Then we put up the Christmas Tree
kids helping with Christmas tree

Rachel and Christmas Tree

pink hair girl and tree

My mom got the kids each one of these from Canada, they are now no more :-( they kids took them off the tree when playing tody and they got smashed
snow globe Caleb

Rachel Christmas Tree Decoration

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