All Things Home and Family
We did the traditional cookie baking here last week and the week before, too. I bought more almond bark this year than ever before. We coated peanut butter balls, coconut balls, shortbread, kringles, and pretzels. I didn't mean to have a one track mind; just did, that's all. Charlotte made those cookies with the jam… Continue reading Christmas Cookies
I have always considered this carol to be a little fanciful, maybe not quite accurate. It was written in protest during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some of you are old enough to remember those days when tension ran high between the United States government and the Russian leader, Khrushchev. Russia was building… Continue reading ‘Do You Hear What I Hear?’
We have storm warnings for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day from Nebraska to Northern Minnesota. This blizzard is forecast to happen directly over the route a couple of our children are to take to come home the day after Christmas. Will we really be snowed in? How many people will stay safely at home and… Continue reading A Christmas Storm?
I quite agree with this essay on the subject of Christmas.
We read them every Christmas. There are whole collections of quaint and pithy tales of woe turned to joy just in time for Christmas. These stories warm the soul just as surely as the fire in the living room fireplace warms the toes.Charles Dickens wrote his famous Christmas Carol just before Yuletide one year to… Continue reading Cozy Christmas Fireside Stories
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