1. Yay! Finally! You can open the first present in your Advent-calender. Find your Christmas decorations and decorate a little bit every day. Check at the local post-office when the deadlines for Christmas-cards to arrive in time are. Start your own christmas-journal, where you write lists for presents, cards and cookies-recipes.
2. Make a list over all the Christmas-gifts you have to buy or make. A good list is a job half-done. Almost…
Buy tulip- and hyacinth-bulbs, put them in water, leave them in a relatively cool room and they´ll be ready for Christmas.
3. Plan the Christmas-parties, send invitations and plan the menus. Light the fire-place and listen to some of your favorite Christmas-music.
And find all your red clothes, and have them ready-to-wear!
4. Put up all the decorative lighting outdoors.
5. Rehearse Christmas-carols while you bake the first batch of Christmas cookies. December is a month of song, so sing out loud with your most personal instrument, your voice!
Bake dry cookies and fruit-pies that need a while to mature. Let the children join in the fun!
6. Second Sunday in Advent. Light the two candles. Today is Nicolas-mass, named after St Nicolaus, patron for children and sailors. Take a walk in the nature and collect pine-cones funny branches and other elements you can use in your decorations.
Make and write a couple of Christmas-cards. Oh, and write something personal, like what you appreciate about the receiver.
7. Go to the post-office, and buy postage for all your Christmas-cards. Buy different ones, to make the cards/envelopes cheerful!. Like this package I got last month from Japan:
8. “Mary-in-waiting”-day, referring to the virgin Mary waiting for Jesus to be born..
Make a new tradition: every year one new ornament for the Christmas-tree. A self-made one. By making a new ornament every year, your tree will become a tradition-bearer in a new sense of the word. You can make several, and give to your friends, along with other presents. I love hearts, and decorate my whole house with them for Christmas. That´s what it´s about isn´t it? Love?
Or invite a couple of your favorite creative friends over, and make one ornament for each present, and swap between yourselves afterwards. What fun!
9. Decorate the entrance, maybe you can make a big wrath of some of the things you picked up on your walk on sunday? Make a part of the house ready for the Christmas-cards. How can you display them, so they can be enjoyed the whole month?
Find some things you don´t need anymore, wrap them and give them to a homeless shelter.
10. Make edible gifts, like caramel-candy or jams or sugar-coated almonds. Write a letter and find a gift for your adopted child in a third-world country. If you don´t have one already, check out SOS children villages. They do a great job!
11. Make your own candles! Get a kit at the local craft-store, and have a fun night with the entire family! And while you´re at it, get the christmas-plants. If you wait too long, there will be just left-overs. And then they´ll help you decorate tomorrow when you…
12. Invite lots of friends over for a light-feast! This is the darkest time of year, still a couple of days to go, before the sun turns. So light candles inside and outside if you can, and celebrate the light!
13. Third Sunday in Advent. Saint Lucia-day, in memory of the saint who died a martyr in 304 in Sicily. Wake up early and bake rolls, add cream and wake everyone up singing the Santa Lucia-song. Light three candles.
14. Make a ginger-bread house and decorate it with the kids. Be creative and unfold your inner architect!
15. If you haven´t already, now is the time to get hold of wrapping-paper, and ribbons, make labels. Get candles and napkins too. Take extra care in wrapping presents. Be creative in how you decorate them. Add a little ornament or a candy-cane with the ribbon and label. I´ll be back with lots more suggestions and tips.
16. Christmas-workshop with the kids. Or friends. Make a gift. Maybe you should try making that painting you´ve been thinking about.
17. Buy the Christmas-tree and wreaths and candles for the graves of your lost loved ones.
Make a fire in the fireplace (or light lots of candles) and enjoy a good book.
18. Seriously cleaning! This is the day. This is the weekend. By the end of it, the house will sparkle!
19. Keep cleaning. When you´re done: Spa-day! Take a long, bath with scented oils, take a hot-mud-mask and a glass of red wine by the tub. Have girls-night-out with your friends, and dance the night away!
20. Fourth Sunday in Advent. Thomas-mass. Light all four candles. Take a walk outside and forget all about Christmas for a little while. Visit older friends or relatives, and bring some cookies or snacks.
21. Check all your lists, to make sure you´ve remembered it all. Make a couple of extra gifts to have in case someone drops by unexpectedly 
22. Make the sour-kraut (surkål) and polish the silver. Then make a treasure-map with a small edible treasure at the end! Like … brownies!!
23. Decorate the Christmas-tree. Use ornaments that make you happy, even if they don´t match your sofa. The corky Santa your nephew made in kindergarden, the Eiffel-tower key-ring souvenir from Paris, and your newly made decoration of the year. All while playing Christmas songs on the CD, and singing along. Have an open house, with friends dropping by, invite them in for egg-nog /gløgg.
24. Christmas Eve. Set and decorate the table in the morning. Go to church and light the candles on the graves. Let the peace silently unfold around you.
25. Christmas Day. The big family day. Or to be more specific: the day you spend with your loved ones.
26. Another peaceful day. Maybe time to spice things up a bit? Find the games and play Monopoly or Life or Chinese checkers. Make a family-tournament!
27. Time to visit friends. Or maybe you can invite them to your house. Invite old friends who come home for Christmas, that you only get to see a couple of times a year.
28. There are lots of concerts these mid-season-days. Go out and have some fun!
29. Make a list of things you like to about yourself. Keep it and look at it on blue days. And while you´re at it. Make a list for some of your loved ones too. It will certainly put a smile in their heart
30. Go outside and make a snowman. Or if there is no snow, go outside and sing in the rain!
31. New Years! Yay! Make a nice table in silver, and smile, dance and be happy! Forget about resolutions – you´re already great just like you are!
What an extra-special entry. One to be bookmarked that’s for sure. Thanks for all the inspiration and advive.