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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We started elf last year bc my then 11 yo wanted to help. I buy a kit and she does it all. Fun for her.

We do advents, but OP I see what you mean — I would never ever ever ever do again the types of advents that are an activity. How (not) fun is it to pull a random paper at 8:00 at night that says “have hot cocoa” or “watch a movie together” or “make cookies.” Then you have to tell the kids you’ll do it tomorrow. Disappointment. And now I have several of those tasks for follow up on, building and building.

Now, for holiday activities, I write the stuff we want to do. I take that list and make a “prep” list. The stuff we have to do to make it happen.

From Dec 1-12, I do the prep list. From Dec 12-25, we do the fun list.[/quote]

I think the key is not put to much pressure on yourself. We do advent calendars with just a word like hot cocoa or ice skating and if there's time and interest we go out ice skating or make cocoa but more often than not we'll do the cocoa calming meditation and watch Yuna Kim skate. Some slips are just concepts like grateful or service[/quote]

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