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#ShareTheGift

November 28, 2014 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

The Christmas season is officially upon us! Are you ready to #ShareTheGift with your children? With family? With others? If you are looking for a few simple ways to focus on Jesus Christ during this Christmas season I have some suggestions. Print out the Nativity figures and Scripture Advent Countdown to do with your children every […]

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A Christ Centered Christmas {Review & Giveaway}

November 13, 2014 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 32 Comments

I love celebrating Christmas! I love decorating my home with all the assorted Nativity sets I have collected over the years. Our family enjoys our various traditions of studying the Names of Christ throughout December, having a scripture advent countdown, and doing Christmas school. Last year I came across a wonderful book called, A Christ-Centered […]

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Reclaimed

December 19, 2013 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

Last week while Mr. Ferrero Rocher and I traveled to and from Utah I brought along Pres. Boyd K. Packer’s new book, In Wisdom and Order, to read aloud. It’s a collection of speeches and addresses he’s made in the past half century. Anyway, I’d just open the book to a random chapter and start […]

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Last Minute Gift Idea (Right From the Grocery Store!)

December 17, 2013 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

‘Tis the season of gift giving And all about town Folks are out searching Some sporting a frown It’s hard you see to find the perfect gift The one that can bring A smile and a lift But here’s a secret as plain as can be Just use your local grocer and gift cards, you […]

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The Story of Christmas

December 8, 2013 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

This beautiful graphic tells the story of Christmas when you look up the scriptures under each stained glass picture. Click to learn more about the story of Christmas. © 2007-2012 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved

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The Reason Behind Christmas

December 1, 2013 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

We expected Bon Bon to come home this past Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with us. She surprised us by coming home four days earlier! It was a treat to have her and her roommate here for a whole week as we celebrated Thanksgiving and decorated the house for Christmas. There are Nativity scenes here and […]

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Keeping Christmas

December 26, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

When the wrappings have been opened wide,gifts given and received,And songs of praise haveraised the roofin jubilee. It does not have toshould notend.This spirit of Christmas,joy heartfelt. We can have it all year long,every day,even on the hard stamped days,the snowy cold-in-the-heart days. As our lives move onwardpuzzled togetherwith bits of this and that,we can […]

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A Dozen Beloved Christmas Books

December 18, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

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 […]

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Christmas With the Prophets

December 9, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

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. […]

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2012 Family Christmas Card

December 7, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 15 Comments

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 […]

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A Christmas Scripture Advent for Children

November 30, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 20 Comments

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 […]

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NOEL: Carols of Christmas Past {Giveaway}

November 28, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 86 Comments

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 […]

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Activities to Focus on CHRISTmas

November 26, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 7 Comments

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 […]

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The 13th Day of Christmas {Giveaway}

November 19, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 25 Comments

♫ ♩ ♩ 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. […]

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Names of Christ Study Booklet {Printable}

March 10, 2012 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 21 Comments

Pin It Usually we do a Names of Christ unit study at Christmastime. This year I decided to incorporate it into our countdown to Easter. I designed this little booklet for my children (the younger ones) to use as we study. {The older ones are using these books from the Redheaded Hostess.} There is a […]

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Hello, I'm Montserrat. I'm a farmer's wife, mother of eleven, homeschooler, chocoholic, music lover, and like to play a good game of Scrabble. You can read more about me here. . .

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