Seasonal & Holidays
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A Colonial Christmas – Hands On History
What was Christmas like in Colonial times? Close your eyes. When you picture Christmas in your mind, what do you see? Jesus as a baby in a stable? Christmas lights? Beautiful trees covered with decorations? Food? Family? Friends? Santa? And PRESENTS ?!?!? What if I told you that there was a time in our country’s history that a child might have answered like this: A fabulous feast of fish, flesh, and fowl! In the year 1608, Captain John Smith wrote this, “The next night being lodged at Kecoughtan; six or seaven dayes the extreame winde, rayne, frost and snow caused us to keep Christmas among the Salvages, where we were never…
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Josefina’s Southwest Christmas- Hands-On History
What was Christmas like in America’s Southwest Frontier? It’s 1824… the warm dusty streets are filled with all the sights, sounds and smells of Christmas! Biscochos, piñon smoke, farolitos, las posadas, and mariachi! Maybe this sounds like Christmas in another country to you! Nope! These are all some of the things Josefina Montoya loved about Christmas in her beloved Santa Fe! While Christmas in the early 1800’s wasn’t being celebrated in a big way in most places in America just yet, Christmas was a very special and important part of the culture of New Mexico! If you want to add to this Christmas study, you can learn all about Josefina…
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Christmas Booklist- The Name of Jesus
Hello! And welcome to Fields of Daisies ultimate Christmas Booklist! Are you looking for ideas for Advent Christmas book gifts? Or maybe you are searching for ideas and activities that are fun, but still highlight the real meaning of Christmas? Are you stressing out over how to spend time doing all the things you want to do with your family, and still get everything on the “to do list” done as well? If you are looking for any of those things, hopefully you will find what you’re looking for today! This Christmas Book List for The Names of Jesus was written specifically to go along with a Free Christmas…
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The Name of Jesus Christmas Devotional
The leaves are changing into beautiful oranges, yellows, and reds even here in Texas. Fall has blown in and that means that the holidays are just around the corner! And I bet that reading those words just stirred up either excitement and anticipation, dread and anxiety, or maybe a little of both in your soul. I get it! So, I wanted to share something with you- an early Christmas gift of sorts. The Name of Jesus is a Christmas devotional I wrote to help me FOCUS on one name of Jesus each day during the month of December. I wrote these little thoughts first in text messages last year…
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An American Girl Christmas – Holiday Homeschooling
Are you stressing over how to homeschool through the holidays? You can relax! I have the perfect answer- Christmas School! The holidays are coming ! The holidays are coming ! Cooking, cleaning, preparing for company, shopping, parties, children’s plays, church events, cooking some more, oh, yeah….and homeschooling ! Phew! I’m tired just from typing all of that ! How DO you homeschool through the holidays ? Do you dream every year about decorating cookies with your kids, curling up by a fire and reading Christmas stories, making handmade gifts and cards, and spending time as a family focusing on the real heart of the holiday ? Do you find it impossible…
