It’s all about the countdown

I have a kid who literally fell flat on his face one Christmas morning at the sight of his gifts under the tree. Being only 3 at the time, he didn’t have far to drop, but to help diffuse the energy that inevitably builds up after Thanksgiving, we adopted the Advent Calendar – or, more correctly, its secular cousin the Countdown Calendar – as a family holiday tradition.

He’s a part-time working part-time adult now, but he got his set of 24 doors to open each day in the mail last week – mostly to help him remember his flight home leaves at 0:dark:30 on Christmas Eve.

But why stop there? From now until New Year’s, I’ll be counting down all the reasons we should rejoice that 2008 will soon be in the rearview — and what we might be tempted to recall as the good old days in the coming years.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for issues, stories, characters from the last 11 months you’d like to know what they’re all about right now.

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