tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21071722.post8969079823916946722..comments2023-09-13T07:23:32.495-04:00Comments on Living & Loving: Celebrating the SeasonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21071722.post-44643856293371031672008-12-02T19:25:00.000-05:002008-12-02T19:25:00.000-05:00I love the book idea! Very fun. This is the firs...I love the book idea! Very fun. This is the first year that we are doing an "Advent" thing. I bought a Advent storybook & then I made "ornaments" with clip art & they hang the one up that goes with the story. We do the New ornament every year too(or we try to :)) We will make cookies. I LOVE Christmas! <BR/><BR/>You are wonder woman though, wow! How do you get everything done?!Thad and Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14347080912305268010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21071722.post-27041804882859463262008-12-02T14:16:00.000-05:002008-12-02T14:16:00.000-05:00I love the idea of making a list of the ornaments....I love the idea of making a list of the ornaments...we also buy Morgan, my niece Julia, and my brother and Patrick's sister a new ornament every year for their tree. I will start keeping a list for Morgan!<BR/><BR/>We did some traditions growing up that I hope to continue....this year Morgan made a paper chain to count down the days to Christmas. I hope in the future to tie those paper links to doing nice things for others in the spirit of Christ and the season. My husband's family always opens presents Christmas Eve and then stockings on Christmas morning. <BR/><BR/>It's been so hard for us to start a "home" tradition with Morgan since we travel every other year to my parents' house in FL and she is still so young. But I love your tradition of the books, and I have been wanting to do the pajamas tradition. I switched it up this year though and gave my daughter and niece their matching holiday PJs on Thanksgiving day! I also gave them each a Fisher Price Little People Nativity Set and I want to use that to teach Morgan the Christmas story. Do you or any of your readers have a good suggestion for where to find proper scripture readings to go along with that? I know Catherine does a Jesse Tree which I want to explore, but for right now I need to keep things simple, for Morgan and for me!Mama10EEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004523585108091541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21071722.post-67831964151768438212008-12-02T13:50:00.000-05:002008-12-02T13:50:00.000-05:00Ooh, annual traditions... I don't know, there are ...Ooh, annual traditions... I don't know, there are so many little ones that I don't necessarily think about them being tradition, yet I know if they were missing, it would feel like a part of Christmas is missing. Getting a real tree as a family. Mom putting on the lights- no matter that her children are now plenty old enough to do it. Chocolate cut out cookies with chocolate frosting for Santa. Reading the Christmas story from the Bible as we all pack in the living room on Christmas morning. Garland strung from beam to beam. I just had to laugh as I remembered a new one- both my mom and my husband are "into" the Dept 56 houses and people. They try to out do each other every year, and then the day after Christmas, they both race to store to buy new ones that are half off. Ooh, ooh, ooh- singing Silent Night a capella at the Christmas eve service with only the glowing candles for light. I could go on and on, but I'll stop! I just love Christmas! :-)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06260996599377622143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21071722.post-59352012307438659552008-12-02T10:14:00.000-05:002008-12-02T10:14:00.000-05:00A suggestion... if you haven't, start making a lis...A suggestion... if you haven't, start making a list of the boy's Christmas ornaments (the year they got them, who they got them from, etc). It will help you when it comes time for them to move out so they can take them (I know it seems like forever from now) and if they are at all like me (or marry a woman like me!), they'll really enjoy taking the list out each time they decorate their tree to remember when and from whom each ornament came.Jennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06115358795667247609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21071722.post-31423375029138954672008-12-02T08:21:00.000-05:002008-12-02T08:21:00.000-05:00That's a great idea to wrap up the Christmas books...That's a great idea to wrap up the Christmas books that you read each day!Heather L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09892693393383714339noreply@blogger.com