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    Entertaining

    Christmas Traditions

    Since it is Christmas Eve I thought a would share my family’s favorite Christmas traditions with you. We have a few and through the years some of them have been modified to fit our growing and changing lifestyle. A fun one was buying, hiding, and wrapping my daughters’ gift. Waking up in the middle of the night and being extra quiet so we could place the gifts brought by Santa under the tree without waking her up. This was fun it was like our own Elf caper mission. This tradition has long passed, these days the roles have reversed and the one playing elf is my daughter. She goes shopping…

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    Nitty-Gritty

    Noel

    I was out Christmas shopping a few days ago and while I was looking at some holiday house decorations, I overhead a little boy ask his mom what does Noel mean. The mom told him she didn’t know but, “It has to do with Christmas”. By the time I got home, I thought I would do a little research and find out a bit more information about Noel the other word for “The Christmas Season”.  Noel is a noun and it has three meanings: The Christmas Season; yuletide (lowercase) a Christmas song or carol a male given name Noël the noun is Anglo-Norman and Middle-French and ( Modern French) there…

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    The Christmas Toy Edit

    As I sit here and plan what I need to get done for Christmas I realize that it has been a few years since I have had to do our Christmas toy edit. The toy edit was one of the ways that I kept the enormous amount of toys that my daughter would obtain as birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, or just because she has loving relatives who get joy from spoiling her. To be truthful my husband and I also enjoyed buying her toys, I mean, to be honest, it is fun to buy toys for kids. I began the toy edit right after her first Christmas. She received so many gifts…