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1. Soul Food Cafe - Advent Calendars There is a tradition at the Soul Food Cafe. Each December, for the past five years, Heather Blakey has launched an Advent Calendar on the first day of December. Advent calendars have long helped build excitement and anticipation on the countdown to C...
2. Preparing For Advent - Activities To Celebrate the Holiday Season T he Christmas season is such a special time of year and usually full of once-in-a-lifetime memories.   We live in Texas, where having a white Christmas is very rare.  So I remember a few years ago when we had finally gotten enough snow for...
3. Advent is The Season Before Christmas Did you know that Christmas is preceded by an entire season devoted just to the preparation and anticipation of the great, holy event of Christmas? Advent, which means, He comes, is the liturgical season of four Sundays which precede Christmas. ...
4. Christmas Coloring Fun Christmas coloring pages and coloring craft sheets will keep the kids occupied in the hectic days before the holidays. Print out Christmas and New Year coloring pictures to decorate with crayons, markers, glitter, colored pencils, paints or colored c...
5. Countdown to Christmas This lens is all about getting ready for Christmas. Not about what gifts to buy your relatives, or how to host a perfect holiday party, but the special, meaningful things that families may do together during the season of Advent. I've found some beau...
6. Christmas Unit Study 3 - Language Arts A Christmas Unit Study (Language Arts) ~Christmas is such an amazing time of year to celebrate the birth of the blessed baby, Jesus. While parents and teachers who are teaching about the events of the Bible, and the events of the seasons, why not tur...
7. Top 10 Christmas Symbols Christmas is one of the most widely celebrated holiday's in the world. It is a celebration of love, joy and unity; symbolized by familiar images that are designed to conjure up warm feelings of home and the spirit of peace, birth and giving. But...
8. Christmas Unit Study 4 - Bible A Christmas Unit Study (Bible) ~Christmas is such an amazing time of year to celebrate the birth of the blessed baby, Jesus. While parents and teachers who are teaching about the events of the Bible, and the events of the seasons, why not turn it int...
9. It's Christmas Time It's that time of the year again. Christmas time is at our doors and we are going to revive those traditions we learned during our childhood and taught to our own children. Christmas is the most joyful time of the year, celebrated by all Christian...
10. Christmas Carol Lyrics Page for Music Lovers I decided to make this page with Christmas Carol Lyrics because it's so hard to find nice Christmas carols anymore. Many of the ones I have have long since gone out of print. That doesn't mean they've gone out of my heart or our family's Christmas an...
11. For Me, Christmas Is Light I have always connected Christmas with light. Light is warm and welcoming, and that is how I like to think of Christmas. Light is repeated throughout the season: Christmas tree lights, Christmas stars, Christmas candles, Candlelight ceremonies.... I...
12. Beautiful Advent Wreaths In many religion is a tradition that four weeks before Christmas people are making or are buying Advent wreaths and on every Sunday they lit one , two, three and finally four candles. These beautiful wreaths are made from  evergreen leaves and ,...
13. XMas Advent Calendars 2009 We had an advent calendar for a few years when I was small. It had a strange magic. We had a simple advent calendar: just pictures behind the doors, no candy let alone toys. These days advent calendars come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, with sti...
14. Christmas Advent Calendars Filled with Gifts and Treats The entire month of December is a holiday celebration for our family. We love decorating, holiday music, holiday movies, special events and more. One of our favorite family traditions is to count down to Christmas using an advent calendar. Howev...
15. Playmobil Advent Calendar This Christmas Advent Calendar Part of the Playmobil Toy System helps you count down 24 days till Christmas! Playmobil Toys makes a new advent calendar every year so you can build your collection. The excitement of counting the days to Christmas and,...
16. Online Christmas Party 2008 Come in, hang up your coat, and join us as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Christmas is our favorite time here at Lilliput Station, so we like to start the celebration a little early. Thanks for joining us at our second a...
17. Christmas Is Coming As a result of all the glitz and sparkles, all the perfect Christmas scenes and shows, we develop an unrealistic picture of what Christmas should be and how it should be celebrated. You can have the kind of Christmas you want without raising your blo...
18. Advent Wreath - A Christmas Tradition The origins of the Advent wreath can be found in the folk practices of the pre-Christian Germanic peoples who, during the cold December darkness of Eastern Europe, gathered wreaths of evergreen and lighted fires as signs of hope in a coming spring an...
19. Reindeer Christmas Decorations Santa Claus's reindeer are a team of flying reindeer traditionally held to pull his sleigh and help him deliver Christmas gifts. The commonly cited names of the reindeer are based on those used in the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", arguably...
20. The Angels Speak Angels. In spite of the fact angels are only mentioned a few times in the scriptures, people everywhere are fascinated by them. And no more so than during the Christmas and Advent season.  After all, it was angels who told Zechariah, Mary,...