Sentences with phrase «of holiday traditions»

However, though it's certainly easy to get caught up in all of the holiday traditions and the warm and fuzzy - ness of the season (which in my book is totally okay to an extent...), I also want Jack to grow up knowing the true meaning and reason behind Christmas and what we're really celebrating.
While I love all the festive homes, ideas and stories of holiday traditions, I've enjoyed each one so much, this week I find myself more in a contemplative mood.
one of our holiday traditions since my hubby and i married is waking on Christmas morning to a cinnamon pecan coffee cake.
Steeped in centuries of holiday traditions, these epicenters of good cheer feature hundreds of vendors selling everything from regional handicrafts, to local delicacies and sweets, warm wine (it's amazing), hot cocoa, and so many wacky and interesting gifts for friends and family back home that you'll need another travel backpack.
Many of the holiday traditions can be dangerous to our pets.
One of the things I remember is that most of the holiday traditions were not started in the U.S.. Although many different holidays are celebrated in our country, if you ask children about holidays in December most of them...
I can't wait to share with them some of our holiday traditions that I look forward to each year, like Nick's mom's beautiful tree always surrounded by dozens of poinsettias.
I have had to step back and evaluate my list of holiday traditions.
We still have a long list of holiday traditions we need to check off before the big day and I feel like...
We still have a long list of holiday traditions we need to check off before the big day and I feel like...
And maybe pass down some of our holiday traditions, like Christmas brunch.
You can tag me on Instagram using @simplyquinoa or #simplyquinoa and that way I can see some of your holiday traditions!
For the first time ever, Pringles is looking to become part of your holiday tradition, rolling out 8 new flavors based on traditional Turkey Day foods.
So, fast - forward to the present moment: my mental wherewithal mostly in tact after the first 12 months of motherhood, and the desire to be involved in some kind of holiday tradition tugging at my heart strings.
Everyone expects a certain spread when it is time to visit the buffet, so what happens when all of a sudden you can't enjoy this part of the holiday tradition?
He gets such joy from seeing the children's faces light up and hearing from the adults that driving through his display each year has become part of their holiday tradition.
For some, overindulgence is as much of a holiday tradition as opening gifts.
Planters has been an American favorite for over 100 years and has been part of our holiday tradition since I was a kid.
Ethan — now 33, single and working as a mall elf during the Christmas season — finds tickets to the most exclusive Christmas party in the city, a party that has eluded the trio since the inception of its holiday tradition.
Grisham offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition.
Our dogs love them and they are part of our holiday tradition.
It's become something of a holiday tradition for me to place an order with the fine folks at Fangamer every holiday season.

Not exact matches

That Ron Burgundy Christmas ornament isn't just a novelty purchase — it's an example of «modernized tradition,» which, according to Trend Hunter's analysis, is an indication that younger consumers don't much care for the rigid formalities of the holiday season.
According to Nazi intellectuals, cherished holiday traditions drew on winter solstice rituals practiced by «Germanic» tribes before the arrival of Christianity.
Redefining familiar traditions and designing new symbols and rituals, they hoped to channel the main tenets of National Socialism through the popular holiday.
The latter are especially fond of one holiday tradition: the office party.
The tradition of setting new goals and resolutions permeates everyday culture during the year - end holiday season.
We called «Coco» a «fantastic family - friendly feast for the eyes and the heart» and it's in part thanks to the vibrant colors, sounds, and traditions of the Mexican holiday of El Día de los Muertos it centers around.
I suppose coming just a few days before Christmas, a dispute over federal health transfers can become a new sort of Canadian holiday tradition given it has happened before with the December 2011 unilateral transfer decision announced by the federal government.
One of the traditions during the Christmas holidays is to read Charles Dickens» famous book «A Christmas Carol,» or to watch one of the many film productions about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who turned his life around and became a generous soul on Christmas Day.
Except for the fact atheists share no common belief, moral tenets, history, culture, texts, goals, holidays, traditions, practices, places of gathering, or hierarchy...
If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.
The Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger in Bethlehem 2000 some odd years ago is ubiquitous across the country, even if the American tradition has leaned away from the sacred and toward the secular.
Jesus is in the business of redemption, and just as Jesus has redeemed you and I, He redeems the cultural elements and traditions that surround us, including pagan holidays.
In fact, I wrote a whole book proving that Jesus was not born in December, and that most of our Christmas traditions are Pagan holidays....
I think I hold to some hodge - podge mixture of both ideas: Buildings and holidays and traditions can be redeemed, as long as they do not consume our values and mission.
So if people truly want to rid themselves of all things pagan, they need to start not with their holidays and traditions, but with their theology.
We do also practice tradition, not as tenants of our faith though.Tradition at our house holds that the birthday person picks the meal, it also includes giving gifts at christmas.Not because it was created the same day as a pagan holiday, but because it is a family tradition.
Enjoy all the chocolate, marshmallow and dye you want without worrying about having to fabricate some Christian meaning for every aspect of today's holiday traditions.
And a great many people have attacked atheists about them celebrating Christmas, in our secular way, with the pagan traditions that make up most of the Christmas holiday.
A tree nor Santa have anything to do with christianity and if you knew anything about your holiday you would know that it is based off of pagan tradition largely.
Rhythms of life are built around your weekly routine, holiday traditions, and interactions with people — and these are all about to change.
Consider leaving just one holiday tradition behind this year, so that the absence (of a fancy meal, a familiar decoration, a favorite ornament) is a reminder of how much justice has yet to be realized in world where the Kingdom has been inaugurated but not yet consummated.
Some traditions of Christmas were taken from pagan celebrations, but the holiday itself is about the birth of Christ.
And so she knows their ways, which include a tradition of returning to Tunisia or Algeria during holidays to visit relatives.
Free from government control — and without government assistance — religious values, literature, traditions and holidays permeate the lives of our citizens and, in their diverse ways, form an integral part of our national culture.
Even so, such people are often accused of having a «hidden religious agenda» because of the remnants of the Hebrew - Christian tradition in the schools» religious values, holidays and customs.
It's definitely one of the best traditions we have for the holidays!
I too have the tradition of serving chili at the holidays.
After making a fresh batch of these crinkle cookies, this time incorporating chunks of chocolate that burst and melt away with every bite as well as some peppermint extract that makes every one of those bites refreshing, I'd say we have a new holiday tradition on our hands.
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