"December 1: Waiting" from the Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar collection.
It's called "December 1: Waiting."
This story is a part of Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar — 25 stories for the 24 magical days of Advent in December — plus Christmas! From the playhouse to the library, from the Weber's restaurant to the Spunderful Shop, you can spend all of December with the delightful brother and sister as they follow their own Advent adventure.
Enjoy a 10 to 25 minute story all the way to Christmas!
The story for December 1: "Waiting" Advent is coming and brother and sister are worried — where is their advent calendar?When a curious golden envelope arrives in the mail the day before advent begins, Martin and Sylvia are surprised and delighted by the invitation inside.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome to December. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. We are releasing this |
| 0:14.4 | episode early on December 1st because we're busting with excitement over here. |
| 0:27.1 | December 1st, well really yesterday, November 30th, begins the season of Advent, |
| 0:30.0 | which is a celebration in the Christmas tradition. |
| 0:32.8 | It's a celebration leading up to Christmas, and it's all about anticipation and expectation in creating peace and joy and connection and appreciation. |
| 0:43.4 | We love this season and we have so many stories to celebrate it. |
| 0:48.5 | In fact, years ago, we started creating what's called an audio advent calendar. |
| 0:54.5 | It's a little like a paper advent calendar. |
| 0:57.6 | On a paper advent calendar, you open a little door a day to see some beautiful image or get a little message or a little gift. |
| 1:06.7 | With an audio advent calendar, you have a story a day from December 1st to December 25th Christmas |
| 1:13.0 | to inspire your entire season. We have five of these audio advent calendars. |
| 1:19.9 | This story comes from our very, very first audio advent calendar, Martin and Sylvia's audio |
| 1:26.6 | advent calendar. The story is called |
| 1:29.2 | waiting and it's for December 1st and in the story Martin and Sylvia receive a golden |
| 1:35.7 | envelope. What is in that golden envelope? You know Martin and Sylvia's family. They know how to do |
| 1:43.0 | the holidays with so much delight and inspiration. |
| 1:46.9 | And this experience sets them up for an absolutely marvelous holiday season. |
| 1:52.1 | So listen in and get inspired. |
| 1:55.5 | Before I share the story, I want to encourage you to subscribe. |
| 2:00.2 | So not only do you get access to all of our content |
| 2:02.9 | and our entire Sparkle library, but you can enjoy the hundreds and hundreds of holiday stories |
| 2:09.9 | just for this time of year. We have five of these audio advent calendars. You can pick one and listen to |
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