December Daily™ 2011 | Day Eighteen

What a great idea. It gives the month some excitement and gives the kids something to unwrap as they WAIT for Christmas.

(Looks like day 18 ended up in the blog post for day 19?)

I love that you took a picture of all stages of this new tradition agree a list with all the books will be the perfect final touch.

I think a list is a great idea! I've kept mine in a basket this year, but I def want to wrap them up for Taylor next year. Great tradition!!

Fabulous tradition and love the photos. You have the most wonderful traditions. Thanks for sharing.

I love it! Hope to adopt this tradition next year.
You are such an inspiration Ali!

What a wonderful tradition Ali! You are such a fun mom.

Visit Barnes and Noble the day after Christmas --ALL their Christmas Children books are 50%off then, and they usually have a good selection if you go first thing in the morning. I usually buy a new one each year after Christmas and I always put them out in a basket during the holidays, but I will do this next year!TFS!

Ali-
I'm doing this for the first time this year and I'm loving it. I'm doing it a little differently--I'm letting Sophie pick whichever book she wants each night. My sister helped me wrap the books and I took a photo of all of them wrapped and it's going in the album. Next year I'll do like one of the previous commenters and keep track of which book we open each night. Love this new tradition!

I wanted to do this too but didn't get my books out in time...definitely on the list for next year! One of our traditions is for Santa to bring at least one new Christmas book each year. I love that even with all the new toys they will sit down at some point to read the new book.

Love this tradition. It's one of our family's favorites.

I love that you took pics of the books. I always read Christmas books to my kids, and then passed them on to younger cousins. I do wish I had documented that. I think I'll get a photo on amazon and do a page about it. Thank you for the sweet memory. :)

Lovely!

We are doing a book advent, also: http://intrinsicimages.net/2011/12/december-daily-2011-day-15/. It is definitely a tradition we will be keeping. I truly love it: the look of the wrapped books all lined up and the nightly surprise when they are unwrapped.

This year we supplemented our collection of holiday books with library books. We always give "something to read" as part of our gifts. So instead of having my daughter open a collection of easy readers on Christmas Day, she has been getting new ones throughout the month.

Very sweet pages! I'd love to see your list at the end of the season! Happy Monday to you Ali!

Hi Ali,
I have enjoyed your December Daily but didn't do one of my own. I am not sure I would have much to journal about daily seeing as how I have a dog and a cat...my family (mom, siblings, cousins...) live too far away for me to include them in my daily journals.
I do have a question about your pictures. Do you have a photo printer that you use? I don't have a printer at home so if I need to print a picture I have to use one of the photo centers at a drug store or department store. that wouldn't be very convenienct for a daily photo journal. If you do have a photo printer, what is your recommendation for which one to purchase?
thanks for your inspiratation!
Ali S.

Really like this tradition. I remember my Gram wrapping books for me to open when my mother and I went on vacation. Other little treats for the trip were wrapped, too. One of the my very best memories. I hope to have wrapped Christmas books when I am blessed with grands. Please tell your parents Merry Christmas! I love reading their story, too.

i LOVED this idea when you first posted about it. we've been trying to read all of our christmas books but they are scattered. i'd love to start this tradition next year -not about something bought but the gift of a memory of a favorite book.

We are doing this too! It's been so much fun to revisit our Christmas books with some new ones joining the collection. I've also incorporated this new tradition into my Daily December by using the numbered gift tags from the books as my numbers for each day of my scrapbook. I alternated making them green and red and just adhere each day's number onto my Daily December page. I loved seeing the books you're reading!

Ali I will be a new grandma next year at the young age of 46 and I can't wait to start this tradition, as a matter of fact I have already bought some books for the baby for my daughter to open this Christmas!