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My children love the chocolate-filled Advent calendars found this time of year at any drugstore. They wait with joyful anticipation to open the little doors to reveal tiny, Christmas themed chocolates. In the mornings, they giggle (or fight, because this is real life, after all) as they eat a present or stocking shaped treat. My son, at 11, is becoming less excited about the calendar, but he plays along for his sister, who is still six and very much enchanted with the little doors.
This year, I found her one night at our kitchen island with her Advent calendar, all the doors open, most of the chocolates gone. When I reminded her of what she already knows that she is only to open one door a day she exclaimed (with chocolate all over her face), “But Mom, I’m just a little girl who loves Advent calendars!” I looked at her with her curly hair, all unruly, her six-year-old face trying to gauge the reaction she searched