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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby CandyKane » Thu Dec 28, 2017 8:45 am

This was a bittersweet Christmas for us. The first one where dd didn't believe in Santa. :santagifts:

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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby CandyKane » Thu Dec 28, 2017 8:46 am

319 Christmas pages joyelf

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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:51 am

Jolly O'Leary wrote:Watching Christmas Cruise on Youtube. an ION movie. I love it already. definitely on the to buy list for 2018.


I found that movie while you were on cruise and watched it on YouTube too! Very Christmas cute. :D
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:52 am

CandyKane wrote:This was a bittersweet Christmas for us. The first one where dd didn't believe in Santa. :santagifts:


Hopefully, like us [and Polar Express], they always hear the bell ring when they grow up. A short period of doubt about Christmas seems a rite of passage.
Did you tell her the story of the real St. Nicholas? :wink:
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:54 am

Merry Thankful Thursday Christmas
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:55 am

Hoping we reach 6375 posts before New Year's Eve passes! Then we start the 2018 Christmas Countdown thread! :smilecc:
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:00 pm

Today has a solemn note: Holy Innocents Day
ImageHoly Innocents Day (also referred to as Childermas) commemorates the massacre of male children at Bethlehem by King Herod’s order (Matthew 2:16). Also known as the Feast of the Holy Innocents, this day is observed in the Western churches on December 28th and in the Eastern churches on December 29th. These children are considered martyrs, Saints of God, by the Church.
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:25 pm

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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:26 pm

319 Christmas Pages!! :snowgirl: :snowgirl:
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby CandyKane » Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:28 pm

Happy New Years Eve Eve Eve Christmas friends! :smilecc:
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:30 pm

Just 361 Days until Christmas 2018!
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:31 pm

CandyKane wrote:Happy New Years Eve Eve! :smilecc:

Happy New Year's Eve-Eve to you too Christmas Elf CandyKane! :scene:
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby CandyKane » Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:31 pm

Noel+ wrote:
CandyKane wrote:This was a bittersweet Christmas for us. The first one where dd didn't believe in Santa. :santagifts:


Hopefully, like us [and Polar Express], they always hear the bell ring when they grow up. A short period of doubt about Christmas seems a rite of passage.
Did you tell her the story of the real St. Nicholas? :wink:



Oh yes we read all about him. We also continued our Christmas Eve tradition of reading about the birth of Jesus from Luke and Twas the Night Before Christmas. :nav1:

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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:55 pm

How very lovely a Christmas tradition that is too CandyKane. One we follow in our home too. :smilecc:
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:56 pm

6375 Christmas Posts on the last Friday of 2017! :snowtoast:
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby kiwidogy_max » Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:44 am

Hello my Christmas friends. I am sorry I have been away for much of this Christmas season. It has been an exciting week as my youngest brother and his wife had their second child, a baby boy on the 26th. A present only 1 day late! My brother is visiting from CT, so I have been hanging out with him as well. This has been an absolutely lovely Christmas!
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby kiwidogy_max » Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:46 am

I hope everyone’s Christmas has been wonderful, restful, and magical this year... the goal is to make that feeling last all year!
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:48 pm

kiwidogy_max wrote:I hope everyone’s Christmas has been wonderful, restful, and magical this year... the goal is to make that feeling last all year!


Good morning, Kiwi. Your brother [and family] received the very best present for Christmas -- a new life! a new baby! Congratulations! You were missed here at CAY but we share in your joyous news. So happy your Christmas was a delightful one! :snowjump:
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:51 pm

Merry Santa Saturday Christmas! The last Saturday of 2017.
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Re: Christmas Countdown 2017

Postby Noel+ » Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:52 pm

This weekend is a bit meditative for me as we prepare to close out 2017 and enter in the new year. Praying 2018 is a year of health, happiness and holly jolly spirit for us all as we countdown to a new Christmas! :smilecc:
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