What did everyone have in their advent calendars today then?

[SnowMuchToBits]

For those who have the traditional ones with pictures -

I had a Santa, and ds had a Christmas pudding.

we got a traditional one from Waterstones and today it was a Snowman

I don't know but you have just reminded me that there is chocolate in the house!

A bell.

DS has taken on board my little talk about Santa keeping tabs on all the good & bad things we do, and has generously offered to let dd open it every day (usually it gets pretty ugly)

An angel

The 1st 2nd 12th and 14th days of Christmas have dissapeared! and I've just eaten the 15th. A snowman.

a picture?! Feck that!

chocolate. Accept nothing less.

Bugger!

I didn't realise it was advent time so soon, they've only just finished letting off the fireworks!

a tree to stick on the fabric picture and a wee note saying colour in some christmas cards today... (funnily enough we bought some colouring in christmas cards yest at church ) ds very excited by the wee note!

Playmobil giant bird cage

Playmobil tree plus 2 birds

2 chocolate FC hats.

Oh and SnowMuch, the playmobil folks so very lied re 20 mins to construct the advent calendars.

very traditional here: I had Mary & Joseph and it said "Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem and be counted" - I think I know where this is heading.

DS started his "challenges" one and 1 was go and collect holly and fir so we had a nice wintry trip to the woods this afternoon

My dd had a little magnetic robin to put on the christmassy scene. It's one of those with little drawers around a santa and xmas tree scene, each box has a magnetic piece to decorate the picture.

She was so cute this morning, bless her.

Magnetic robin sounds lovely, chipo!

at Playmobil taking longer than advertised to construct, slubber!

A note to look in the tissue box (that was supposed to be lovingly decorated in xmas paper but I forgot ) andin the tissue box were some paper chains.

Ds looked slightly excited about the thought of making paperchains and slightly disturbed that there was no chocolate. Good job my aunt brought him in a Dr Who calendar tonight. No idea what was behind door number 1 - he'd eaten it too fast!!

I'd better go and make the tissue box look Christmassy!!!

mine is one dd1 made at school, so I had a badly spelled "merry Christmas" in a heart shape

looks like she has put the wrong numbered doors on each window too (so door 1 had picture 22 behind it)!! Bless!

a santa, which my dd promptly ate!

The three kings (as strange dolls that look like the Pontipines). I'm not that keen on this advent calendar, but twas the only one I could find that wasn't chocolate and Barbie.

a chocolate snowman!

Tradly, if you get those beautiful elaborate German picture ones, Dec 1st is a lit candle.

We (that is ds & dd) excitedly got .....

.... water purification tablets for a family without clean water supplies

a santa, which my dd promptly ate!

For our advent we have a lovely fat ceramic snowman with a robin on his hat. He's holding a Metal chart and next to him is a little pot with tiny figurative magnets inside.

Every day someone gets to shut their eyes and choose a magnet to countdown to christmas. There is a parcel. a dolly, a book. a bell etc etc.

It was my turn today and I got a teddy bear!!

It's my very favourite decoration, the details are so lovely. It means all the good mid winter things like sunny cold days, sherry, watching TV in the afternoon, eating chocs and drinking Baileys aren't far away

(DP and I argue about who's turn it is, and DGC get a go if they are exceptionally good )

whose

A very pretty fairy.

The first section of the ninkynonk (on a chocolate coin thingy)