" Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time" -Laura Ingalls Wilder
First day of December has already arrived and we have prepared an Advent Calendar to share with everyone.
An Advent Calendar is a special calendar used to count or celebrate the days in anticipation of Christmas. It originated in the 19th Centurty from the protestant area of Germany. Protestant Christian families drew a chalk line for every day in December until Christmas Eve. But not long after, commercial entrepreneurs started replacing the ephemeral chalk lines with printed calendars. The first known Advent Calendar dates back to 1851. Nowadays it is usally a thin rectangular card with 24 doors. Each door is numbered 1 to 24 and behind each door there is a Christmas scene, a poem, a small gift or treat like a chocolate item.