Advance Praise (i.e., OMFG! Countdown!)

My brother and I spent a good chunk of our early childhood in Germany, and every winter my mom would get us an awesome candy advent calendar. You know the ones, right? They helped to pass the excruciatingly long holiday wait by providing magical perforated windows, which opened to daily chocolate surprises.I'm not sure, but I think the commercial calendars might've been invented to shut kids up during December. ("Can't I open just one present?")Well, it's only two months before KINDLING THE M...