Christmas is Our most favorite holiday. We just love decorating our home, putting up the Christmas Tree, baking Christmas cookies, driving around, and seeing all the houses decorated for the holidays, but the best part of the holiday is seeing the look on our Daughter's face when she wakes up Christmas Morning. It's priceless. We don't have a chimney in our home, but we have a special "Santa Key" that we leave on the outside of the door on Christmas Eve night for Santa to use to get inside. We make a big deal about leaving Santa some milk, and cookies, along with a letter from Isabella. We also make special reindeer food. (Belle loves doing that.) After we open all of the presents on Christmas morning, we make pancakes, and cut them out in different christmas shapes. These are just a few of the traditions we have started since our Daughter has been born. If you'd like to share some of your family traditons, or just want to say hi. Then send me an email. I'd love to hear from you. Have a Very Merry Christmas.

Christmas Crafts

Reindeer Food

Use a bowl with a lid to it. Put some oats in the bowl,
and add some red, green, gold, silver, and white glitter
to it.(The glitter will sparkle on the ground, making it
easier for the reindeer to spot the food in the dark.)
Put the reindeer food in seperate sandwich bags, one
for each kid. Bundle everyone up real warm, and go
outside, and let the kids sprinkle the reindeer food all
over the yard. They will love it, and so will the reindeer.

Box Full of Kisses

This is mainly for younger children.Take an
empty box, and have your child blow kisses
into it. Then help them wrap the box up, to
give as a gift to someone special.

Nylon Reindeer

Take a coat hanger, and pull it into a diamond
shape. Pull a pair of nylons over the hanger.
Make antlers out of brown construction paper,
and glue them onto the reindeer's head. Add
some jiggly eyes, and a red pom pom for the
nose, and whatever other decorations you like.
Let the glue dry, and then hang your reindeer
up.

The Story of the Candy Cane

A candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a
witness, so he created the Christmas candy cane. He incorporated
several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He began with a stick of pure white hard candy. White symbolizes
the virgin birth and the sinless nature of Jesus. The hard candy
symbolizes the solid rock - the foundation of the church, and
firmness of God's promises. The candy maker made the candy in the
form of the letter "J" to represent the name of Jesus. It also
represents the staff with which the Good Shepherd reaches down to
the ditches of the world to lift out the fallen lambs who, like all
sheep, have gone astray. The Candy maker stained the candy with red
stripes. He used three small stripes to represent the scourging Jesus
received by which we were healed. The large red stripe was for the
blood shed by Christ on the cross. Since that time, however, the candy
has become known as the candy cane. The story of its creation has been
lost to tradition and mass production, and it is now available in many
different colors, shapes, and sizes.