My Christmas in Pictures

  Hello, dear readers!     I hope you all had a very merry Christmas with your families and friends! I had a wonderful Christmas at home with my family, and received many pretty things from my dear parents and sisters.    Today I thought I would write a nice long post with lots of pictures from Christmas and the days preceding (because, um, I kind of took a lot of them,) so this will kind of be a...

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Christmas Carol Lyrics Game~ Answers!

    I hope you all had a lovely Christmas! :-) I had a wonderful (and snowy!) Christmas at home with my family. Hopefully there will be a long post about that with lots of pictures coming soon!  Here are the answers to the Christmas carol lyrics game I posted last week. Many thanks to all you who played! : PCarol #1   For Christ is born of Mary, and gathered all above   While mortals sleep, the angels...

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Merry Christmas!

   It's Christmas Eve!     It's a winter wonderland outside! I was afraid we wouldn't have snow for Christmas because last week it was warm and it all melted away, but last night it began to snow again and this morning when I awoke everything was white! It was very fitting, especially considering how we just finished watching "White Christmas" last night. It looks as though we'll have a white Christmas after all! :-)   ...

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Christmas Carol Lyrics Game

  Since Christmas is only five days away (FIVE DAYS, people!) I thought, why not do a Christmas carol lyrics game? I love most all Christmas carols and to me they are a very special part of the season. Below are verses from ten different traditional Christmas carols. Try to guess which carol the verse comes from; most of them are later verses from very well-known carols and I tried not to make it too tricky, so I hope it isn't! : P Leave your...

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December Letters

    Dear Readers,      Christmas is coming! :-) I've had a lot of ideas for special Christmasy posts this year, and this is something I've seen on several different blogs and have been wanting to give a try.  Here is a collection of little letters to people and things and experiences that I've been thinking about and doing and so forth, most of which are directly related to Christmas but...

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Happy Birthday to Jane Austen!

                      Today is Jane Austen's 238th birthday!      Jane Austen is the greatest and most beloved English authoress of the nineteenth century-- and, arguably, of all time-- whose romantic regency novels are some of the best-loved books in the world. Over the centuries she has been admired, quoted, mimicked...

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