We love books. We love Christmas. We love books about Christmas! Here are a dozen of our favorite. 1. The Miracle of the Wooden Shoes by Deborah Pace Rowley is a moving story about love, anonymous service, and the gift we receive from the Savior. As is tradition in his German town, Walter puts out […]
Heart Maps
Heart maps. These are so much fun to create! I did this idea with my seminary students and had such a good time seeing their creations I thought I’d do it with my kids too. Draw a heart and divide it into sections. In each section draw or write something you love. Make it colorful! […]
Christmas With the Prophets
This is a repost from one I wrote last year for Latter-day Homeschooling. David O. McKay giving a sleigh ride to family members Every year we forego all the scholarly studies for December and focus our attention on Christmas instead. We have what we call “Christmas School.” Last year we had Christmas with the Prophets. […]
2012 Family Christmas Card
Our Christmas cards are done, stuffed into envelopes and ready to mail the next time we go to town {since our mailbox is 15 miles away}. If you normally get a card from us please don’t read further so you’ll be surprised when it arrives! I am sharing our card, slightly altered to fit the […]
Landfill Harmonic – The Recycled Orchestra
Music. You know how I feel about music. It has the power to change lives – for good or ill depending on what type and how it is used. Here is a beautiful story of one town in Paraguay that uses garbage to make recycled instruments for their children to play. A whole orchestra has […]
Tuesday Tidbits
1.We got to spend Thanksgiving with my family – where all the men cook Thanksgiving dinner {but my girls couldn’t help but make something – like rolls, stuffing, and pie}. It was delicious! And so very relaxing for me. 2. My youngest sister was married the day after Thanksgiving. It was a joyful occasion! The […]
NOEL Giveaway Winner
The winner of Jenny Oaks Baker’s new Christmas CD NOEL is . . . . Megan who blogs at Tales of a Hobby Hopper! Congrats, Megan! Please e-mail me at chocolateonmycranium {at} live {dot} com to claim your prize. © 2007-2012 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, […]
A Christmas Scripture Advent for Children
Awhile ago a blog reader asked if I could create a simple Christmas countdown for children using the scriptures and the main figures of the Nativity story. Each day in December leading up to Christmas a small part of the Christmas story is presented as told in the four Gospels of the New Testament, particularly […]
NOEL: Carols of Christmas Past {Giveaway}
GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED!! Christmas music is filling our house! I love this time of year when there are so many arrangements and variations of familiar Christmas songs available. For my birthday, my parents gave me a new Christmas CD, NOEL: Carols of Christmas Past, by Jenny Oaks Baker. It is lovely! Some of my favorite […]
The 13th Day of Christmas Winner!
The winner of the 13th Day of Christmas Giveaway is…. Deana M (smurfmobile85) Congrats Deana! Please e-mail me our mailing address a chocolateonmycranium {at} live {dot} com and I’ll get the book shipped out to you. © 2007-2012 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights […]
Activities to Focus on CHRISTmas
The Christmas season is upon us! It can be a beautiful and inspiring time of year if you allow some room for Christ in all the celebrations. He is the reason we are celebrating to begin with, right? Here are a few activities and lesson plans I have shared over the years to bring our […]
Give Thanks – Eucharisteo
For a little over a year I have been on a personal journey. I’ve realized this is the only real goal I want to carry forward in my life. Not because I don’t want to accomplish other things or better myself but because this one thing has the power and capacity to be the catalyst […]
The 13th Day of Christmas {Giveaway}
♫ ♩ ♩ On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me ♩♩♫ I know, I know, Thanksgiving isn’t even over and I am posting about Christmas. What is wrong with me? And to make it worse now you’ll get the most annoying Christmas song ever stuck in your head. Your welcome. […]
Five Things for Friday: Of Phones, Turkey, and Easter {yes, Easter!}
01. I got a new phone that can actually send and receive texts! Welcome to modern technology, right? I still don’t know yet whether this is a good thing or not. I was gone to Reno all day yesterday and received countless texts from my daughter who also got the same style of phone. It […]
Me, Old?
Do I look old? I sure don’t feel old. I don’t have any signs of aging – no grey hairs or major wrinkles. And yet I look around at all my kids and think I should at least feel old because there are so many of them and together we’ve done a heap of living […]
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