22 sleeps to go...

Today the children wrote their letters to Santa. Just before sending them up the chimney I photographed them. First of all Samuels...

I am not sure which independent country Samuel is planning to launch a military campaign against with his night vision goggles and nerf gun. Thankfully Lili was a little more peaceful (or was she... there is a lot of black)...

Larakia decided that words were not adequate in showing forth the objects of her innermost desire and so filled both sides of her paper...

... with pictures of presents. No clues for jolly 'ol St. Nick here.

I am not really sure where the desire for a violin came from with Harrison, but I do like his dog and his effective use of parentheses to avoid confusion with any other Father Christmas who might stumble upon his letter...

and finally Micah. He wrote his name on his own! Kudos to him and may Santa bring him everything that his yellow squiggle symbolises!

The letters of my darling offspring got me thinking though about other kids' letters so I went trawling the web. I found an awesome site http://www.kidssantaletters.com/index.php. Here are a few of my favourites

 

That last one is so sweet!

23 sleeps to go.... (with a good chance of a broken leg)

All that snow... a blank canvas... it's only going to be around for a few days or weeks at best and then you are left with boring old soggy precipitation or sunshine...

You know that feeling when you have a lot of snow and don't know what to do with it... we had that itch today and needed to scratch it.

We have done the snowmen...

 The wrestling...

  The rolling down the hill with a dog attached to your head...

Snow angels...

One-dog open sleighing...

And, of course, dancing barefoot through the snow.

So where does the snow addict turn for their next high?

 

Building a snow slide!

 (we live in Lincolnshire- not really renowned for its hills)

We feel the need...

 The need...

 

For speed!

24 sleeps to go.... the advent piece today was an Angel!

Today we played in the snow. What better way is there to start Advent and the "real" run up to Christmas? As we played I thought of a couple of my favourite Christmas songs...

 

Dashing through the snow

In a one horse open sleigh

O'er the fields we go

Laughing all the way

Bells on bob tails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing

A sleighing song tonight

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

 

And the other song that was going through my mind was;

Oh the weather outside is frightful

 But the fire is so delightful

And since we've no place to go 

Let It Snow!

 

Let It Snow!  

 

Let It Snow!

It doesn't show signs of stopping

 And I've bought some corn for popping

The lights are turned way down low 

Let It Snow!

 

Let It Snow! 

 

Let It Snow!

 

What a lot of fun! And now the fire is bright and the outside is cold, we are going to watch a Christmassy movie on the projector.

 

 

Also today the Advent Elf came to visit!
We ring a bell and he appears somewhere in the house and brings a gift with him everyday. 
But when he is here you must be extra careful to behave the best you can, because he moves around the house watching so he can let Santa know if you have been good or bad..... so as they say you'd better watch out..... he see's you when your sleeping and well he knows when your awake!