May your day be full of gratitude and wonder and awe at the miraculous birth that took place over 2,000 years ago. May your Christmas be shared with those whom you love and those whom God loves, even the less fortunate and the forgotten. Here’s wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas. See you […]
Archives for December 2011
Christmas Traditions: Gingerbread Houses
We began making gingerbread houses when my two oldest were 2 & 3 years old. It has become a tradition we all look forward to every year. It is always a blast! And now 13 years later it is still as fun as can be. This year we’ve decided we wanted to create a village. […]
Christmas Traditions: Nativity Scenes Part III
Click for Part I and Part II. The one we received this year from my parents as part of the advent calendar. Isn’t it gorgeous? © 2007-2011 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved
Christmas Traditions: Three Gifts
1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 3 […]
Come Let Us Adore Him CD winners
It was fun reading about everyone’s Christmas traditions. Thanks to all those who entered the giveaway. The randomly chosen winners are and Heather from Raising Memories who shared a new tradition with Christmas bows. Congratulations, ladies! E-mail me at chocolateonmycranium@live.com with your mailing address and I’ll get these sent out to you. © 2007-2011 Chocolate […]
Christmas Traditions: Advent Calendar
This advent calendar was made by my dad several years ago. He used wooden office supply drawers typically used for the top of desks, attached knobs to the fronts of each drawer and then numbered and decorated them to match our tastes. If you look closely you can see our brand. The first year Grandma […]
Christmas Traditions: Music {Giveaway}
It’s no secret I grew up surrounded by music. My parents made sure we all took piano lessons. My dad played the guitar and would serenade us to sleep in the evenings. It was his way to relax after a stressful day but it was also wonderful for us. We loved to sing together. I […]
Christmas Traditions: Nativity Scenes Part II
Part I is found here. More of our nativity scenes. I love this tiny one that was a gift last year. This was the “prize” everyone looked for when opening the Christmas containers. All of the pieces contain bits of scripture verses on them. Stitched by me over 13 years ago. A friend bought this […]
Christmas Traditions: Names of Christ {Ornament Tutorial}
Every year, no matter what we are doing for Christmas school, we always study the names of Christ as we countdown to Christmas. Did you know there are over 200 names that He is known by in the scriptures? 200! If you were to study a different name every day in December it would take […]
The Coat and Other Stories of Charity
I’ve been gathering Christmas stories of the prophets for a unit study for this year’s Christmas school “Christmas with the Prophets.” (You can download it at that link.) One consistent theme running throughout their celebrations is charity. Many of the prophets had very little in their youth. Yet they gave anyway. One example is shown […]
Illustrating Christmas
Fudge and Cookie were at the table the other day giggling and laughing. They were also going through tons of paper. I asked what they were doing and they replied, “Oh we got bored so we decided to draw pictures to go along with some Christmas songs.” I thought what a great activity! It kept […]
Christmas Traditions: Christmas School
One of the great benefits of homeschooling is tailoring not only our schedule but what we study. I schedule our school year so that we have all of December off from normal studies. Because I don’t want our daily schedule to be thrown off too much we replace our ‘scholarly’ studies with Christmas school. This […]
Christmas Traditions: Nativity Scenes Part I
We have many Christmas traditions in our family. One of my favorites is collecting nativity scenes, or creches. We get a new one (or more!) every year to display along with the others in our collection. Because I have so many I decided to cover most of the nativities in two posts (maybe three). Enjoy […]
Guest Post . . .
. . .over on Someone in Mind today. I wrote about some of our family’s Christmas traditions that point our family to Christ. Click on the button to go to the post. © 2007-2011 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved
The Life of Jesus Christ Bible Videos
The First Presidency announced a new gift to the world for the coming holiday season. “The Life of Jesus Christ Bible Videos” website was presented by President Henry B. Eyring during this year’s First Presidency Christmas Devotional and is a collection of short videos depicting the life of Jesus Christ. The videos are faithful to […]