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christmas traditions

July 23, 2007 By: amyswandering2 Comments

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I love, love, love the Christmas season! Everything is so colorful, happy, joyful, peaceful. These are some of the things we do every year to celebrate:

**My Christmas fun starts the day after Thanksgiving with Black Friday Sales. I am a member at Gotta Deal and starting around October they have a board dedicated to Black Friday deals.

**I collect nativity sets and add a new one each year. I display them on our entertainment center, but all the wise men go on the mantel because they are traveling “from afar”. Here’s my tip for cheaply adding to a collection: I purchase my nativity set for the next year at the after-Christmas sales for 50 – 70% off.

**We decorate our tree the week after Thanksgiving and that night my kids get to open their new winter pajamas.

**I put all of our Christmas books in a basket on the fireplace. I read a cute idea somewhere – wrap 25 books; open & read one each day until Christmas.

**remembering tree – this is something new I came up with last year in honor of our son Elijah. His favorite color was purple & his favorite holiday song was “I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas”. We’ve been collecting purple hippos for several years and would put a few on our tree each year. I just happened to find a small purple fiber optics tree at Dollar General last year & I decorated it with all of our hippos. It was really cute, & of course I didn’t take a pic of it!! You will just have to hang around until December to see it :o)

Here are a couple of ideas I want to try this year:

Softening the Manger

This book:

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Check out Organized Christmas for a great printable planner.

Do you have any ideas to share? Leave a comment, or add a link to your blog if you want to do a Traditions post. 

Don’t forget to enter my Christmas In July giveaway!

 

A Christmas Prayer
Robert Louis Stevenson

O God, our loving Father, help us
Rightly to remember the birth of Jesus,
That we may share in the song of the
Angels, the gladness of the shepherds
And the worship of the wise men.

 

Close the door of hate and open the
Door of love all over the world.

Deliver us from evil by the blessing
That Christ brings, and teach us
to be merry with clear hearts.

 

May the Christmas morning make us happy
To be thy children and the Christmas
Evening bring us to our beds with
Grateful thoughts, forgiving, and
Forgiven, for Jesus’ sake. Amen

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christmas in july giveaway

July 23, 2007 By: amyswandering

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Comments are now closed. I will post here when I have a winner!

Shannon at Rocks In My Dryer is hosting a giveaway carnival , which goes hand in hand with my idea for the week:

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This is what I’m giving away: A Home & Garden Party snowman candle holder (I’m an HGP Designer), peppermint candle, & Keeping Christ in Christmas by Steve Russo. Plus whatever else I throw in at the last minute. I stink at the whole camera thing, so click on the pic to get a better view.

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Leave a comment with your email or blog link to enter. (US & Canada only please) I will draw the winner at noon Friday.

I will enter your name twice if you play along or link to chjuly2s.gif!!

I will be sharing ideas, recipes, websites, etc. all week & you are invited to play along!

Here’s the schedule:

*Monday – Traditions How do you celebrate our Savior’s birth? What fun thing does your family do every year? What new tradition do you want to start?

*Tuesday – Crafts Share fun activities, websites, pictures of your projects

*Wednesday – Gifts Things to make, theme gifts, frugal ideas

*Thursday – Decorating Give us some creative ideas to enjoy the beauty of the season

*Friday – Food I know you all have some fabulous recipes!

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wfmw no-stress present opening

May 2, 2007 By: amyswandering10 Comments

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This week’s Works-For-Me-Wednesday has a birthday theme.

Present opening time was always the hardest part of a child’s party to me. Everyone crowds too close & there is always that one kid who thinks they need to help open all the presents. We play a game at our parties that solves this problem.

Have all the kids sit in a circle holding the present they brought. Turn on some fun music & tell the kids to start (slowly) passing the gifts around the circle. When the music stops, the birthday child opens whatever present is in his/her hand at the time. Repeat until all the gifts have been opened.

Not having to deal with a present free-for-all works for me! Head on over to Rocks In My Dryer for more great birthday ideas.

(Just wanted to let you know that I did not create this game. We played it at a party one of the kids went to many years ago, but with 4 kids I have no idea who’s party it was!)

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wfmw irish brown bread

March 14, 2007 By: amyswandering4 Comments

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I thought I would post my favorite Irish bread recipe. Hubby & I lived in Dublin for a year working with a church there. It is a gorgeous country full of funny, friendly people.

Irish Brown Bread
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
3 tablespoons toasted wheat bran
3 tablespoons toasted wheat germ
2 tablespoons old-fashioned oats
2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
2 cups buttermilk

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Butter a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Combine first 8 ingredients in large bowl; mix well. Add butter; rub in with fingertips until mixture resembles fine meal. Stir in enough buttermilk to form soft dough. Transfer dough to prepared loaf pan.
Bake until bread is dark brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Turn bread out of pan and cool right side up on rack.

Check out this great website that sells Irish food. We had so much fun browsing & remembering all of our favorites.

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wfmw – holiday bathrooms

February 28, 2007 By: amyswandering3 Comments

Once again, I turn to my trusty Dollar Tree for this week’s idea. They sell wired garland for every holiday (comes in a coil w/foil stars, hearts, shamrocks, bats, etc). I placed 4 push pins along the top of the mirror in the kids’ bathroom. I just loop & drape the garland across the top of the mirror. I keep all of the garlands that I’m not using in colorful baskets on top of the cabinet over the toilet – I got the baskets at Dollar Tree of course! It makes the bathroom look so festive, but it’s fast, simple & cheap.

While I’ve got a captive audience – does anyone have a great idea for a Women’s Retreat notebook? We’ve always filled a folder with the schedule, notes, songs, etc. & I’m looking for a more creative idea.

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