Advent Calendars (Milkshakes and Margaritas — a blog for the modern mom)

what our kids are reading now

The adventures of Samuarai Jack has been great fun to read. The series is about, an evil shape-shifter named Aku from the distant past that has brought destruction upon the land. Jack is a heroic warrior in a quest to return to the past and undo the evil wrought by Aku. ~ d
Dillon has been loving “The Monster Show” for weeks. It is a cute “tell all” about monsters... did you know that monsters feel silly only wearing underpants? Little D (3) now reads it back to me and it is the cutest thing ever. ~d
This is a great little series of books about trucks, fire engines, digger and other machines. Dillon reads these over and over again. The have cute illustrations, bright colors and they are about machines — what little boy wouldn't like! ~d

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Milkshakes and Margaritas is a daily website dedicated to all things kid and parent related, run by San Francisco-based moms, Tanya Schevitz & Danielle Gutherie.
Tanya is the mother of 2 boys, and a writer for several publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle. Danielle also has 2 boys and is a partner and designer in the SF based design studio — the Vega Project.

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Advent Calendars

Every year my parents gave me an advent calendar, and I'd count down the days until Christmas (while eating chocolate). Sometimes I could barely keep myself from peeking at the day ahead to see what goodie was inside. I tried this with my kids last year, and frankly, they are too young to have chocolate every day. Or maybe I'm too old. Anyways, I did a little search on advents... here are a few favorites I found — with, and without treats.