Christmas All Year Community

We had our Christmas dinner at church today. Everything was so good. And the best part is there was so much food that everyone got to take home leftovers so I didn't have to cook supper tonight.

The kids really enjoyed making the Christmas birthday cards today. Then we opened our bible store so they could use their bible bucks to buy gifts for their families. They had a blast.

Hubby finished up his Christmas shopping this afternoon. He's busy wrapping away.

I hope that everyone gets a chance to stop in this week. But if not, I wish each and everyone a Merry Christmas!!

I have had so much fun posting on this thread this year and reading about everyones Christmas plans. It's been great spending time with old friends, and great making new ones.

CandyKane wrote:I have had so much fun posting on this thread this year and reading about everyones Christmas plans. It's been great spending time with old friends, and great making new ones.

Same here CandyKane!
It's a great place to visit and lots of wonderful Christmas friends to share our Christmas thoughts with.

We had hockey this afternoon and early this evening. I delivered Christmas gifts to a couple of the wee ones I take care of, and also handed some more candy cane bark out as well.

We are watching A Dennis The Menace Christmas.
DH pulled a mattress out so the kids could fall asleep while watching Christmas movies.

Weird Christmas Facts:

Based on a 1999 estimated population count of North America and Europe, on Christmas Eve of that year Santa Claus had to visit 42,466,666 homes in a 12-hour period — that’s 983 homes per second.
Kris Kringel, a man in his 40s, lives in North Pole, Alaska, and delivers pizzas for a living. He drives a 1984 Ford Tempo.
A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
1 in 6 men would like to get rid of all the “gift-giving nonsense.”
1 in 3 men will wait until Christmas Eve to finish their shopping.
56 percent of Americans sing holiday carols to their pets.
Christmas pudding should be stirred from east to west.
Saint Nicholas of Myra, the original Santa Claus, was the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers.

One of the most popular Christmas songs, “Jingle Bells” was actually written for Thanksgiving!

Getting ready to finish up work for today, then will spend time with the family trying to get the final touches on the house cleaning for Christmas,,,,will sit down this evening and watch a movie or something with the kids tonight.

The children and I watched The Little Drummer Boy this morning. Then it was cleaning time and more Christmas gifts to wrap.

I went out to my parents house today to help my Mom get started on her Christmas baking and candy making.

Our weather forecast has changed and no we have no chance for a White Christmas this year. Oh well, I guess I can start dreaming about next year.

Tomorrow is my Mom's birthday so I gave her the gift I got her today. The fruitcake I ordered from Swiss Colony. It's so hard buying gifts for birthdays so close to Christmas. Mom enjoyed a slice of fruitcake with a big glass of eggnog. Dd got her first taste of both and while she didn't like the fruitcake at all, she loved the eggnong.

Hubby still has one more job to do before Christmas...Put dd's new wagon together. I'm going to put it under her special tree and fill it with the gifts from Santa.

I had almost forgotten about the special plate and bowl that we bought last year to put Santa's special treats in. The plate is for cookies and peanut butter cups and the bowl is for feed for the reindeer. Dd's Santa letter will be in this weeks Christmas edition of our newspaper.

Tonight I made us a huge bowl of banana pudding. And since I still had bananas left over I decided to make a couple loaves of banana bread. Thought I would keep one for us and give the other away as a Christmas gift.

Several of our local churches have been giving away big bags of groceries to help people out this Christmas. I talked to a man today who said he had gotten one of those bags, and how grateful that he and his family were for it. It was a wonderful reminder of the true Spirit of Christmas.