The Countdown Begins!

Gray's Christmas spirit lives on year-round, so it has been difficult not going all-out with our holiday decorations this year. We're waiting to get out our tree, stockings and bins of decorations until after the new floors go in later this week.

In the meantime, we're having to get creative about celebrating the season without our usual decorating traditions. With our advent calendar still tucked away in the attic, I introduced Grayson to the old school construction paper chain.

We made a ring for each day between now and Christmas. He loved using scissors to cut the strips and looks forward to pulling off one ring each day.

As an added bonus, he can visually see how many days are left before Christmas so he no longer asks me on a daily basis how long until it's here. I think we're both excited to see the chain get shorter and shorter!