When our children were small (now 26 and 28), we started the tradition (with our extended family members) to make Christmas gifts ourselves. We have wonderful memories of planning, and spending time together to make gifts for cousins, uncles and aunts. Gifts they would truly enjoy and have good use of. Christmas memories include being amazed at each others skill and effort. The gifts were always very simple. Fudge, marmalade, cookies, small articles with folk art paintings, traditional Christmas cake, the list goes on. Everything baked or made from scratch. Most of the time we would use favorite family recipes. Often with home made tags and lots of thought put into the packaging. Always simple, inexpensive, but stylish.
We are still doing it today. The best part is, seeing how our daughter is keeping the same tradition in her own family and with her in-laws today. We are doing very little Christmas shopping, unaffected by the race and spending habits. We do not know what it means to be overwhelmed by Christmas expenses and hours of shopping.
We pray that this Christmas season will be a time of true rest and peace for you and your family.
Tian and Engelie Blomerus
Sunday, December 6, 2009
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I'd like to share from my cousin's 10 year old daughter's blog and her recent advent experience. I'd call it looking forward to Christmas through the eyes of a child and in one word,Anticipation.She wrote:
ReplyDelete"...Anyway, since it's near to Christmas I always get to watch a Christmas movie every night. My mom also made ginger cookies, yum yum! Tonight the snow drifted down like a thousand tiny ballerinas wearing tiny little skirts falling through the sky. It's gonna be a white Christmas after all!"