day 196: i’ve been waiting for this to come for MONTHS

Was it two years ago that we couldn’t find an Advent calendar anywhere… and ended up making one with family photos? The kids LOVED it. Tante Juls also sent us very delicate paper lantern calendars from Germany so we ended up with more than usual that year.

I think I found this for sale in the summer and thought yes, power of positive thinking, we WILL still need an Advent calendar in 2020. I knew I’d let them look at the box right away though.