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The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 18

Today our “special thing” was candy – Christmas candy. I went to the store and bought several different kinds of Christmas candy – chocolate Santas, chocolate elves, suckers and plastic candy canes with candy in them. I put them all out on the table and the girls chose which one they wanted tonight as a snack. They all got the one they wanted and they thought it was a pretty good “special thing.” It was small, but they all enjoyed.

I did a little wrapping today and I actually got the tree in the library done. I really like having a tree in there. It is one of my favorites for some reason and so I really wanted to get it done as soon as possible. Now I feel like we are done decorating. I even put some of our gifts under it so we could be a little more organized.

The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 17

Today for our “special thing” we decided to talk about what Christmas traditions are the most important to us. Everyone had something different they liked – though narrowing it down wasn’t easy for everyone. Some of the favorite traditions were – opening one gift on Christmas Eve, the Christmas Eve Candlelight service, reading the Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve, doing the tree for the animals, looking at Christmas lights and doing the “Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas.” It was kind of fun talking about all of our traditions – and we have many. Some of the kids can’t seem to give any of them up and others don’t care as much.

Posting a couple more pictures from the church program on Sunday. I had meant to post more earlier, but ended up using other pictures.