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None of this is my real information.  I saw this the other day and thought it was really cute... at first.    1. Your SPY name (middle name and current street name): Sweet Tulip 2. Your MOVIE STAR name (grandmother on your dad's side and your favourite candy): Jane Aero 3. Your RAP name (first initial of first name and first three or four letters of your last name): B-Mum 4. Your GAMER TAG (a favourite colour, a favourite animal): Purple Unicorn

Christmas-time at our House: part 8 Some people hear 'family devotions' and say to themselves "B-O-R-ing".  And trying to keep up with a devotion a day during one of the busiest times of the year might just be pushing the limits of sanity for some families. In our house we've tried several different things, in the effort of keeping our focus on Christ's birth during the holiday season.  We have had varying degrees of success.  I think we've got one that works pretty well now, finally.

Christmas-time at our House: part 6 We have a few Nativity Scenes around our house: one was made in Indonesia (Papua I think) from a coconut shell -my sweetie brought it back from a trip overseas a few years ago; one we bought in Skagway Alaska this summer that has the holy family in an igloo; one is a music box that my mom gave me years ago; another is an ornament that my grandma gave us for our first Christmas married - it is a musical ornament and it has a lovely sound. We also have lots of other nativity ornaments on our tree.  It's covered with them! Then, we have THE Nativity. 

subtitle:  Christmas-time at our house - part 4 This is the 4th installment in my Christmas-time at our House series.  In my last post, I started talking about Santa, and why a Christian family might want to get away from the hype of the season and focus on the HIM of the season.  For most of us, Santa Claus is part of our Christmas traditions, and has been for generations.  We don't have lots of examples of what could be done instead. In our respective families, my husband and I had different experiences with Christmas and specifically with Santa.  My grandma would take all of us cousins to have Breakfast with Santa every year at the BIG MALL, and then we'd watch a holiday movie together in the theatre. It was so much fun. Then, of course, there was Papa greeting us on Christmas morning (he had to get there REALLY early because we were always up before the crack of dawn).  My sister found out the hard way (from her friends) that Papa was NOT Santa Claus!

Alternate Title:  "How to purposefully decorate your Christmas Tree". subtitle:  Christmas-time at our House: part 2 This is the 2nd installment in my Christmas-time at our House series.  We do holiday things differently around our house.  After all, it IS my house and I'm OK with being weird.  The weekend of U.S. Thanksgiving, usually on Sunday afternoon, my family has always put up the Christmas tree.  Since we're all allergic to real trees, we could make this work with our lovely fake imitation Christmas tree.  (I don't guess you can do that with a REAL tree, eh?  Fire hazard and all...)  What does a Christmas tree have to do with Christmas anyway?  Martha Zimmerman talks about the origin of the Christmas Tree in her book, Celebrating the Christian Year.  I won't go into detail about all the tree stuff.  It basically has very little to do with Christ's birth at all, but it has been very much a part of the Christmas tradition since Victorian times at least.