A craft gone wrong...

I had great aspirations to make an advent calendar this year. I wanted to create one that was original, and functional, since it would house Bible verses (and eventually candy).

So I came to the conclusion that instead of spending any money I would use things from around the house. Which actually worked out, the metal tins that my Dad gave me one Christmas (yes that was a random gift especially since he gave me over 25 of them) long, long ago are now being put to good use! I had all the paper, glitter, and glue. I also had just finished spray painting a goodwill frame red, and painted a sheet of metal with chalkboard paint to fit inside the frame.

Sounds like fun eh? It was, for one, full, day. Then it got knocked down by two busy boys and my advent was smashed to pieces. Tins, paper, numbers, and frame were everywhere. Thankfully my boys were okay since it fell over top of them (and thankfully my husband was there to remind me of that). But much to my dismay the frame was unable to be repaired, so my tins laid in a huge pile for the rest of the advent days. Try as I might I couldn't get myself to gather it all together again and repair it.

In the end, it was okay. The true reason why I did it (and side note here, I had a great lesson in pride along the way) was that I wanted to remind the boys each day why we celebrate Christmas. And the fact that every day that we were counting down to the 25th was pointing to Christ and the cross. Whether that reminder was housed in a cool advent calendar or not.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family, celebrating Christ's birth and sacrifice.

Here's a sad picture of the calendar:

But for sure I will try again next year.

My to do list

Is really quite funny. I have things on it like, paint the nursery, make an owl shaped pillow, stitch our names on our Christmas stockings. And none of these wonderful tasks, ever, get done. Each year I pull out those stockings with no names on them. And fall is long gone, so no owl pillow this year. And the nursery, well my second child who is now 11 months old, resides in there. So really that won't get done anytime soon because the only time I have to paint is at night or during nap time. Yep good to do list. Sigh.

But even though I have a crazy, never going to get done, type list. I also have a very different to do list that actual get's done every day. And that is to love two super fun, super cute, super crazy boys and my wonderful hubby. That, thankfully, get's done every day. And for someone like myself who craves completed tasks I think that is a great, permanent, to do list that I can keep up with.

Phew.