Advent Pages and Traditions

I hope to be able to post as many great sights as I can this year. We have many Advent traditions in our home, and I hope to share a few you.

Here is your first taste. The USCCB has come up with a lovely series of Advent pages, including my first Tradition, the Advent Calendar. Every year my husband painstakingly puts together the Playmobil Advent Calendar. 25 tiny boxes are assembled and filled with items such as microscopic baby hedgehogs, mice and birds. Eventually, these will fill the scene of the year. However, usually, at least one child gets eager, and rips into 20 or so days well before St. Nick's day. I then get the joy of fishing out the microscopic mammals from my vacuum canister. Thank you USCCB for making a Virtual Calendar, one without any clean up required!

The Advent Calendar provides a way for us to count the days, and in tradition, are filled with scripture. Often as the O Antiphon days arrive, the window has the Antiphon of the day in it. No Hedgehogs involved.