Our family is enjoying a small family Christmas at our home this year. Missing our extended family, but enjoying our own traditions and each other’s company as well as the hope we have in Christ – the real reason for Christmas. So from our family to yours Merry Christmas! And God bless us every one!
Holidays around here are more often than not filled with baloons, decor, fun treats, gifts, friends, smiles, laughs and great memories. There are so many great holiday activities in our list of family traditions for the holidays. Join us as we share the fun with you!
Our Christmas Advent Monkey
The word advent means “waiting time”, and if you remember a while back I shared a list of some things we would be doing with our kids as we await Christmas this year, but I wasn’t sure just how to introduce those activities to the kids. Well, we found the answer in Melk, The Christmas […]
Frugal Christmas
The Frugal Christmas Series: My friend Heather of Frugal Homeschool Family is running a fabulous series this month called 25 Days of Frugal Christmas. I was privileged to participate as one of her guest bloggers and my post posted today! I hope you’ll stop by and check out all the great information Heather and others […]
A Christmas Tree Slumber Party (Link Up)
As part of our countdown to Christmas each year, we generally include a few activities that have become family traditions and are looked forward to each year. One of those is our family slumber party by the Christmas Tree. When I was a child I used to love to lay under the tree and look […]
Christmas Eve Gifts (Link Up)
With all the hype of counting down to Christmas, you would expect us to have a couple of family traditions on Christmas Eve – we do! One of them is our Christmas Eve gift tradition. We don’t put gifts under the tree until Christmas Eve. But on that special night, after dinner, when the dishes […]
Our Christmas Countdown
By now you must know how much we love holidays around here, and especially Christmas! Each year, in addition to our manger scene calendar, it has become a tradition to do something special to count down the days from December 1 until Christmas. Two years ago, we had a paper chain and cut off one […]
The Ultimate List of Christmas Gift Guides (and Link up)
There are lots of odds and ends gift guides floating around out there this time of year. I’ve compiled a list of some of the best into one Ultimate List of Christmas Gift Guides! Be sure to bookmark this post because you’ll want to refer to it often as you complete your Christmas shopping! Lists […]
The Ultimate Guide to Coffee Lover Gifts
My brother has loved coffee since before he could put a full sentence together. They always said it would stunt his growth, but it never seemed too. I didn’t start drinking coffee until after my fourth child was born, always said I was too young. But something changed after him, and now I love […]
Our Large Family Gift Guide (w/Free Printable)
We knew when we got married, we wanted a large family: “6 kids, give or take a few.” said my husband. We also knew we were going to be lifelong missionaries somewhere outside of the USA. When you combine those two family characteristics, there usually isn’t a lot of extra money to spend on gifts […]
Musician’s Gift Guide
Today, as part of our 20 Days of Ultimate Christmas Lists Series, we have put together this gift guide for musician’s and music lovers of all ages. Martin Luther once said: Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. If you are blessed to have a […]