Has anyone got the cards for the twelve days of mr sacks yet? If not, does anyone know when they are coming?
They start on the 25th.
Ah, I see. I thought it started 12 days before the 25th, the last day being on the 25th. Thanks!
[color=#0066ff](FBG Note - I am a terrible pedant about just one thing in this life: the 12 days of Christmas are between Christmas and 6th January; anyone doing a giveaway or offer or whatever outside of those times is simply too lazy to do 25 things in advent. I’m so proud that we actually do a full advent of treats AND deliver you stories on the actual 12 Days of Christmas. Hooray to the writers and the social media schedulers!)[/color]
My wife is with you on this Hannah. She gets quite upset with Christmas displays that have a baby during Advent and she really doesn’t like it if the wise-men don’t start the Twelve Days distant from the manger and get moved closer and closer each day – only arriving on the final day.
I nod my head and indulge the insane …
[color=#0066ff]I’d say that was next level stuff, BUT. Not only do I do the same, my mum still has a little map I drew for the wise men when I was a child (it’s a squiggle with a star at the other end). Thank you for your indulgence at this time of giving![/color]
I’m so telling my wife about your map! That is awesome! (she is going to adore it, for her it’s all about nostalgia for her grandmother and something like that map is just going to thrill her to hear)
Absimilard, your wife sounds awesome :-).
We used to have wooden figures of both Mary and Joseph and the Wise Men at my house. All of them had to take a hike around our living room during the Advent season. On the 24th - when we celebrate Christmas here in Germany - they would arrive under the tree and before dinner my mother would sneakily insert the baby figure into the crib. Good times ^^.
I’m very excited for the 12 days of Mr Sacks since we don’t do anything like that around here. Christmas in FL has an intercultural learning aspect for me - I was, for example, surprised that British advent calenders seem to go up to the 25th - so thank you, Hannah, for keeping it accurate :-).
Let me add my thanks! Our household was very traditional, too. No tree until my father went out into the local woods and felled one on the 24th. Seriously. And where I live now, they’ve been glittering in living room windows for ten days, and on sale in the street for even longer.