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Caring for a Living Christmas Tree
The Christmas season brings with it many decisions to be made. Among them is, "What type of Christmas tree should I put up?" This year, consider a living Christmas tree. Not only will you enjoy it through the holidays, but a living tree can be...
Christmas Gift Ideas ~ from the heart
1.)Invite those who's families are away, for a get-together on Christmas evening; to eat goodies, sing carols, and just visit (giving some a sense of family and something to look forward to). 2.)Run errands for shut-ins. 3.)Volunteer to serve food...
Christmas Gift Ideas: Interior Décor Presents
Choosing a gift for someone to display in their home can be frustrating. On the other hand, if you're shopping for a friend or family member, you can give a present that will be appreciated.
When to Not Give Home Décor Presents
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Ideas for your Interior Christmas Decorating
There are many different ideas for interior Christmas
decorating. Interior Christmas decorating is an important part
of most people's holiday festivities. For many people, the
interior decorations are what defines the season of...
Merry Christmas (Or Not!!)
BAH HUMBUG
There has been a lot of controversy in the media lately, with
strident voices on both sides, on the merits of stores wishing
Customers MERRY CHRISTMAS.
This is beyond ridiculous, if you take time to think this
through....
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Fun Christmas Costumes
Does your family wear Christmas Costumes? We all remember being
kids. The excitement of Christmas. Starting just after
Halloween, the stores start putting up the holiday decorations,
the TV. starts advertising all the great new toys, and showing
our favorite Christmas shows like Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph,
Santa Clause is Coming to Town, It's a Wonderful Life, just to
name a few. Then our parents climb into our attics, and
basements and start hauling out all the Christmas decorations.
I'll never forget the frustration my Dad had going through the
Christmas lights and replacing bulbs. Thank goodness technology
has progressed to eliminate some of those problems. My parents
always liked to get the Christmas spirit going by adding to
those decorations each year.
No doubt about it, my parents went all out for Christmas. Some
of our fondest memories deal with Christmas traditions. A lot of
us have a Dad, or uncle, or other family member that would dress
up like Santa and stop by and bring a big bag of toys for the
kids. That was always a fun moment. We knew that was uncle Bob,
but we didn't care, the excitement just filled us with joy.
Everybody would wear funny little Christmas hats, and sing
carols. Don't forget all the great food too. Such delicious fun.
Christmas costumes can really make some happy memories. Little
elves, and Santa, reindeer hats, Mrs. Santa. Seeing the grownups
dress up for the occasion built the excitement and made the
experience of Christmas surpass the gift giving.
Christmas Costumes gave us the spirit of Christmas, which in my
view is about being together, and not about putting presents
under the Christmas
tree. Christmas Costumes have become a
tradition in many families. Just because they are fun, and set
the atmosphere of joy, and happiness. If it's not part of your
family tradition, you can always start one. Thats the great
thing about traditions. They can be started by anyone at
anytime. I think if you were to show up in a Christmas Costume,
and pass out antler hats, Santa hats, and Elf hats, you just
might kick start a new and fun tradition. My family had the
tradition of wearing funny hats for the kids, and one relative
dressed like Santa Clause, one dressed like Mrs. Clause, and
having the holiday music playing in the background. Just like it
was a tradition for the youngest of the family to put the star
on top of the tree, assisted by the oldest member of the family.
That tradition got a little hair raising when some of our oldest
members were barley able to lift themselves, let alone a 2 year
old. So, sometimes it involved more than the two family members
to complete the task, but, that was a tradition that stuck.
Traditions like those instill a common thread of memory. It
tells each generation what they need to do, and how to
celebrate. So that each generation can have memories of a great
Christmas together. Reminiscing about the year that Grandpa
knocked over the Christmas tree while holding little Susan up to
put the star on, will bring many laughs to each generation after
that. Be the one to start a new tradition in your family with
Christmas Costumes.
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