Guess what I found? Madeleine L'Engle's The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas, only $2.99 as a Kindle download. This is a prequel to the Austin series that she wrote many years ago, which are some of my favorite books ever. Anyway, it's just a short little book, and I'm not sure how I didn't know about it before (did I read it as a child?), but I think the internet is amazing.
I'm not too far into it, but one of the things that I am enjoying as I read it is that the Austin family (it's written from the perspective of a 7-year-old Vicky) has a surprise for every day of Advent. They have a calendar, of course, and it's one like my brothers and I used to have: no candy or hidden treasures, just pictures of donkeys or shepherds or whatever behind each little window. I remember loving to fold back the little window each day and see who was behind it.
But I digress. They also get to have another surprise each day. One day they hung Norwegian Elves across their windows (not real ones, don't worry), and another day they got to drink out of Santa Claus mugs. I like that! I think that maybe I get caught up sometimes in having some sort of deep and meaningful thought... I don't want to miss out on the fun, too. Drinking out of a Santa Claus mug might not seem very spiritual or significant, but I think it actually is, somehow. But I'm not going to try and prove it. I'm just going to enjoy my little book.
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