Advent idea # 5 (25 days of reading)

25 days of reading!

I love this idea–I read about how a mom had carefully wrapped 25 books and each night she read one to her child at night.  Then when her second baby came along she carefully wrapped 50 books and read each child a book at night (I thought this was crazy but I kept reading . . . ).   The third child she did the same thing (she is now wrapping 75 books!) and finally with the fourth kid the books were just put in a basket and they picked randomly.

I have learned from her and I have adopted the idea of reading a special Christmas book to my kids each night–and I did wrap them in white paper and I did number some of them . . . but I’m only reading one book a night!  and some are chapter books so I will spread those out over a few nights.

a basket of books

I didn’t buy the books all at once–I searched the house first–I found several books with a Christmas theme.  Then I stopped at the library and they have a used book rack–I went often and picked up a book here and there for 25 cents-$1.  Then I just needed a place to put them so I wouldn’t forget!

a selection of our Christmas books

I’m enjoying this “new” tradition.  Tomorrow we will read a book before quiet time rather than wait until evening–this lends itself to lot of possibilities and I love planing in options.  My “older” son likes to stop and listen or read some of the longer books . . . my heart sings to see all the kids gathered in a layered mess reading.

Be Blessed as we focus on wonder of this season.

I’m linking up with  All things christmas, deck the halls