When I visited the new Birmingham Bullring Smiggle store, I was given a rather exciting advent calendar! I really like stationery, especially the kind of funky and colourful stuff that Smiggle specialises in, so to get a stationery treat every day from December 1st until Christmas is super exciting.
I’m not really keen on chocolate advent calendars for little kids, and so I find the increasing trend of toy advent calendars quite a fun idea. As well as the excitement of counting down to Christmas, your children get to build up a collection of something, which quite often ends up as a nice Christmas scene …
This year, I feel very spoilt. My absolute favourite milk chocolate is the delicious Hotel Chocolat nectar, and so my lovely husband has surprised me this year with a HC advent calendar. Yum!! At 19 months (today!) Georgie is still too young to understand the concept of advent, so we haven’t bothered doing her one …
