Home Is Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

With baskets of Halloween candy still stashed in the closet, Christmas decor is already coming out. We strung the lights along the edge of the roof, and framed all the windows, then wrapped the trees with lights today, and tomorrow we’ll be decorating the halls. By the time Thanksgiving arrives, our house will be decked to the proverbial rafters with every manner of decor known to man. And carols will be playing on the CD Player.

I don’t know what your home looks like this time of year, but with family struggling to find time to spend together, we don’t want a moment of those final days of the season wasted on decorating, so we do it early.

Holiday Decorating and Decorations –

We deck outside our home with blue lights, twinkling white lights, and on the trees furthest from the house, colored lights that twinkle under the snow. Near the front window, placed in a corner so we can see it and it can be viewed from the street, we place a manger, the nativity, in preparation for the arrival of the Christmas Baby.

Inside, twinkling lights, evergreen boughs, red ribbons, and gift boxes wrapped and tied with ribbon fill every nook and cranny. The stair rails are wrapped with ribbon, and stockings are hung from the railings.

Holiday Cooking –

Every time we enter the kitchen, something gets tucked into the oven to bake on a timer, and more and more boxes of fresh-baked goodies are stashed in the freezer waiting to become Christmas Gifts for neighbors, family and friends. Each shopping trip more groceries are checked off and the sweet aroma of pumpkin, spice, apples, and cinnamon fill the air.

Holiday Celebrations –

The first parties celebrate Thanksgiving, as we share our gratefulness for God’s amazing abundance and blessed gifts. Gatherings of family, neighbors, co-workers, and friends are treated to gourmet selections, music, and memories being created. At Thanksgiving, our family gathers as final preparations are made for the Christmas Holidays that fill up the whole month of December and most of January.

Life happens through the holidays. Gifts are given. Stories are told. The Christmas Story is read nearly every night, as children gather round to celebrate each of the 25 days of Christmas.

Holiday stress gives way to celebration, amazing food, gifts created, purchased and given… But there’s more. So much more… The celebration of the season is wrapped around the Christ Child and the meaning of His birth. His arrival on Christmas Eve is celebrated with loving, caring, singing, and treasures exchanged in his glorious honor.

The blessing of the holiday happens when we remember the reason for the season… Christ is born. Home is beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

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