Comments on: Beautiful Christmas: Beautiful Traditions

By: Beautiful Christmas Series: Simple Pleasures

Beautiful Christmas Series: Simple Pleasures — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:57:16 +0000

[...] Learning how children in other countries celebrate Christmas. [...]

By: Beautiful Christmas Series: Simple Pleasures

Beautiful Christmas Series: Simple Pleasures — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:57:16 +0000

[...] Learning how children in other countries celebrate Christmas. [...]

By: kaleyehret

kaleyehret — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:37:18 +0000

Hi, Sandy! Glad you like it so much! I actually got mine at Target. I’ve seen it on Amazon in the past as well. Hope that helps!

By: Sandy Pourciau

Sandy Pourciau — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:18:19 +0000

Hi,
I love your Advent Calender(?) with the little doors. This is the second one I’ve seen.
Where did you get this adorable thing?.
I love the way it celebrates the arrival of
Christmas. I would love to get this for my niece since I have no children.

If you could help me I would appreciate it and I love your blog.
Sandy

By: Beatiful Christmas: Beautiful Traditions

Beatiful Christmas: Beautiful Traditions — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:35:54 +0000

[...] my turn to share about how I plan to celebrate a Beautiful Christmas this [...]

By: kaleyehret

kaleyehret — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:26:34 +0000

I’m assuming that you mean the Madeleine L’Engle book? If so, unfortunately, I don’t know where I got it. And when I looked it up on Amazon, it said it was being sold for $156!! Believe me…I paid nothing near that. I’m wondering if it’s out of print, and that’s why?

In case you were referring to the Christmas around the World book, you can click on the title and it will take you to the book on Amazon.

If anyone else knows where to find the “24 Days Before Christmas” book, let us know!

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:13:39 +0000

Thank you for sharing . . . beautifully written! Thank you also for sharing a new book (to me). I was so excited because I have a Barnes & Noble gift card and thought this would be a delightful addition to our Christmas reading – but they do not carry it. Several other local books stores do not carry it also. Any idea where you purchased your copy?

By: Heather Thurston-Nesbit

Heather Thurston-Nesbit — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:19:49 +0000

What a wonderful post. I enjoyed reading all of the great ideas and the reminder of what Christmas is really about. I will be out of a job on Decembere 18th and have found that I am worrying about how I will buy things for my kids for Christmas. Sometimes it’s easy to lose track of what is most important. I have a wonderful husband and two great boys and we are happy, healthy, and together. God won’t give us more than we can handle (although I have been feeling quite overwhelmed lately!). Have a wonderful Christmas. I appreciate all you do!

By: Mom in High Heels

Mom in High Heels — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:43:28 +0000

That book is part of our homeschool curriculum! We’re using Winter Promise’s Children Around the World this year and that’s one of our main “spine” books for the month of Dec. We live in Germany (courtesy of the US Army) and have celebrated St. Nicholas Day since Indy was a baby (he was born in Germany). St. Nick Day is Dec 6 and the kick off of our holiday season. We don’t leave his shoes out, because I would NEVER let him eat anything that’s been inside his nasty shoes. We have a special St. Nick stocking (different from his Christmas stocking). He leaves his letter to Santa in the stocking and St. Nick kindly delivers it to Santa for us (far more reliable than the post office). We do our Angel Tree shopping on St. Nick day and Indy loves to pick out the gifts. We try to get a little boy about Indy’s age and he carefully (and thoughtfully) picks things he thinks the boy will like. I also get a little girl from the Angel Tree so I can shop for girly things.
When we’re in the States, go out to dinner on St. Nick Eve and pick a random table and pay for their meal. Indy likes to pick out the table we pay for and studies the restaurant very carefully before deciding. Here in Germany we don’t do that because, well, Germans are different and I’m not sure it would go over as well as it does in America.
Every year we do some fun traditional things as a family that Indy looks forward to almost as much as the gifts. The Advent calendar (I did a post about this on my blog today), putting up the tree on St.Nicholas Eve (Dec 5), making a gingerbread house (loads off fun and we eat as much candy as we put on the house) and strhttp://www.chachingonashoestring.com/2009/12/09/beautiful-christmas-beautiful-traditions/inging popcorn and cranberries to use on the tree in his room. I want him to have memories other than getting things. It seems to be working as he looks forward to these things every year.
BTW, did you know that in many German households, the tree is not decorated except for the lights until Christmas Eve? After the kids go to bed, Santa and some elves drop by and decorate it when they leave the gifts as a surprise for the children. Isn’t that cute?

By: Jennie Larsen

Jennie Larsen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:28:05 +0000

I think you gave me a LUMP in my throat! you are so right… tradition, memories, time! Love it, thanks for sharing this post!