Advent calendar

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When I was a child, we would often have an “Advent calendar.” I want to say that there was a relative who sent this to us every year, although I’m blanking out on exactly who it was. It was a beautiful Christmas scene with little paper doors that you would open, one each day, as a sort of “countdown” to Christmas. Behind each door would be a little picture of something associated with Christmas — a shepherd, an angel, and so on.

Dave Walker at The Cartoon Blog has decided to do an Advent calendar in blog form.

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John Carney is a journalist, a certified United Methodist lay speaker, a veteran of foreign and domestic short-term mission trips, and author of a self-published novel, Soapstone.
  • Uncle Ben

    I remember the “Advent Calendar” but don’t remember if it was “store bought” or made by “Miss Edith”, my Sunday School Teacher. This was around 1940 plus or minus several years. Wish I had one to share with my grandchildren.

  • Uncle Ben

    I remember the “Advent Calendar” but don’t remember if it was “store bought” or made by “Miss Edith”, my Sunday School Teacher. This was around 1940 plus or minus several years. Wish I had one to share with my grandchildren.

  • http://badbadivy.blogspot.com Ivy

    We do an advent calendar every year. :) The church mailed Megs one, but we managed to lose it, so we’ll go with the old standby. (It’s a cloth advent calendar, very cool!)

  • http://badbadivy.blogspot.com Ivy

    We do an advent calendar every year. :) The church mailed Megs one, but we managed to lose it, so we’ll go with the old standby. (It’s a cloth advent calendar, very cool!)

  • http://www.writers-edge.info Georganna Hancock

    I started to make an Advent calendar for an artsy craftsy friend a few years ago, but by the time I found out exactly which four weeks her flavor of Lutheranism celebrated, it was Christmas!

  • http://www.writers-edge.info Georganna Hancock

    I started to make an Advent calendar for an artsy craftsy friend a few years ago, but by the time I found out exactly which four weeks her flavor of Lutheranism celebrated, it was Christmas!