The Nice Box

Today the advent calendar said to start the "Nice Box". This is a tradition that I learned from my parents. Every year, in December, we would pull out the nice box. The nice box is a box that has a stack of cut up papers beside it. Every time someone does something nice for you, you are supposed to write it down and put it in the nice box. You can not write your name on the paper even if you think that you have done something incredibly nice for someone else.
Then, on Christmas Eve, after dinner has been eaten, nativities have been acted out and cousins have gone home you sit around in your new pj's and eat cookies while mom or dad reads out all of the items in the nice box. It is a really great way to send the kids off to bed because the kids go to bed feeling good about themselves.
This is the first year that we are doing the nice box in our house because this is the first year that Abby and Anne can really start writing sentences by themselves! We'll see how it goes! I hope that it will end up going well.