{"id":211,"date":"2009-12-03T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-07-14T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T17:13:15","slug":"christmas-countdownday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown….Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have a lot of Christmas\/Holiday traditions in our family.\u00a0 I love them all.\u00a0 The first thing we get out is the Christmas music.\u00a0 My in-laws used to live in Maryland and when we drove down for Thanksgiving, we would bring all the Christmas music for the ride.<\/p>\n

The next thing we get out are all the Christmas stuffed animals.\u00a0 I don’t love these as much as the kids love them.\u00a0 We have lots of musical ones that are loud and get quite tiring after the first day….the kids love to play them over and over and over!<\/p>\n

The next thing we get out are the Christmas books!\u00a0 These I love and so does everyone else!\u00a0 We have A LOT of Christmas books.\u00a0 Every year it is fun to get them out and reread them all. Some are more loved than others.\u00a0 Six of my favorite all-time favorite Christmas books are:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson.\u00a0 When I was a little girl I would read this story over and over again..I always hoped that the little girl would find a home and not freeze to death..but the story never changed.\u00a0 I actually have found some newer versions where the little girl doesn’t die at the end..but that just isn’t the story….When I read it still..I think it is so beautiful and sad….it always brings a tear to my eye.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Santa’s Favorite Story by Hisako Aoki and Ivan Gantschev.\u00a0 Even though I am not religious, I love this book and the story it tells.\u00a0 It is simple, yet complex.\u00a0 And the illustrations are gorgeous!\u00a0 It is a story about a sleeping Santa and how the animals are very concerned if Christmas will go on with a tired Santa.\u00a0 It talks about the true meaning of Christmas.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 A Dozen Silk Diapers by Melissa Kajpust and Illustrated by Veselina Tomova.\u00a0 This might be my all time favorite of the favorites!\u00a0 The story is so incredibly..cloth diapering mothers will love it!\u00a0 It is such a creative story…and the illustrations are vivid and so unusual and beautiful.\u00a0 It is about a family of spiders who wonder what they can give as a gift to the new baby Jesus.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 The Night After Christmas.\u00a0 This story reminds me of the Little Match Girl. I received this book as a gift a long time ago and took it to heart.\u00a0 I am an animal lover and the little dog in the book is so loving and kind.\u00a0 It is about some homeless toys and how a little homeless dog helps them all.\u00a0 In the end, he doesn’t find a home, though he helps everyone else find one……such a sad ending!<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0 The Snow Child which is a folk tale retold by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Barbara Lavallee.\u00a0 This story is about an older couple who always wanted children and never had any…so finally a little snow child comes to them and becomes their child..but she must go away every summer.\u00a0 Again, it is a sad story, yet beautiful.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 The Night Tree by Eve Bunting.\u00a0 This is a very nice story about traditions and nature.\u00a0 A family that goes into the woods every year and decorates a tree for the animals.\u00a0 So simple, yet important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have a lot of Christmas\/Holiday traditions in our family.\u00a0 I love them all.\u00a0 The first thing we get out is the Christmas music.\u00a0 My in-laws used to live in Maryland and when we drove down for Thanksgiving, we would bring all the Christmas music for the ride. The next thing we get out are … Continue reading “Christmas Countdown….Day 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,27,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-christmas","category-traditions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p172S4-3p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}