If you go on amazon or shop in any store, you will find a dizzy amount of Advent calendars available, Advent calendars available. As a child/teen we had the simple window ones with the easter type waxy chocolate figures, tiny bites of chocolate leading up.
The tradition began simply enough when families in Germany the 1900 hundreds started counting the days until Christmas by tallying chalk marks on a door or wall. Some families began making homemade Advent calendars to accompany their countdown, and by the early 1900s, a few publishing companies and newspapers had produced simple printed calendars.
The popularity of Advent calendars spread with the help of a German printer named Gerhard Lang. Having grown up with a homemade calendar, Lang began designing cardboard Advent calendars around the turn of the century and, later in the 1920s, came up with the idea of cutting out little doors that could be opened each day. Behind each door, a devotional picture or Bible verse was hidden. With this innovation, Lang is considered the father of the modern Advent calendar.
My own advent calendar is made up of teas from Vahdam India company, (my favorite company to buy my Chia Tea from) each day i will open it up, find the tea listed for the day and make myself a small pot of tea, pick out one of my Tea Cups or Mugs suited in my mind to the type of tea and reflect on life while i take the time to slow down and sip my tea, write in my journal and so forth.
Today’s tea was a lovely spiced turmeric, light with hints of ginger, delightful indeed.
Teapot score solid 4 out of 5 Would buy this to have in my house, perfect for warm both from coming inside but also if you were not feeling well.
Did you put out the advent calendars in your house last night? Do you have a full sized one that gets refilled season to season and year to year, maybe even passed down though the family? Or do you have memories of the cardboard with the tiny chocolates.
Do you still get one as a adult? and if so, what is yours this year? I might do a weekly round up of teas and teapots or teacups with a little review of my favorite teas.
Just another Day on the Farm 
Love your teapots and cups…when I was declutterring I passed all mine from my family to a friend who collects that stuff. She has a ‘hot chocolate station’ set up in the winter, now she has a ‘tea station’. It’s nice to see them being used.
I’ve actually never had an advent calendar of any type, probably because I’m not much of a holiday person. My daughter has a beer advent calendar this year 😁
Thank you, i am taking photos daily and will do a weekly round up post on what was used 🙂 Its nice to share them with folks that will care and use them.. oh, a hot chocolate station sounds just lovely! Yes Advent calenders are fun if you like the holidays but that’s awesome the beer one for your daughter, all the beer or whiskey or X ones like that tend to sell out quite quickly and are much loved.. hope she enjoys hers.