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.