Tip of the Day 12/19/11

Day 7 of The 12 Days of Christmas:

Share 7 ways you celebrate Christmas.

1) As we hang the ornaments on the tree and when we take them down we talk about and pray for the giver of that ornament.

2) We have always eaten cheese/crackers/apples as we decorate.

3) Give Shoeboxes through Operation Christmas Child in honor of others.

4) Since we don't live near family and can't be gone at Christmas we have always gone out to eat on Christmas Eve. The girls loved getting dressed up and going out for a "Fancy Dinner."

5) After dinner we drive around looking at Christmas lights.

6) Richard puts an unwrapped gift like a stuffed animal in my stocking as soon as we decorate and I have to look at it for a month without touching it. This year it is a U of M gnome.

7) Our Christmas candlelight service is the highlight- the time to stop and read the passages and sing the songs, familiar and yet always new.