Blogmas 2014 (Day1)

Good Morning everyone and welcome to day 1 of Blogmas 2014.

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As you can see the topic today is Your favorite Christmas Traditions.

Growing up we always had a real tree and my parents would put it up on December 1st. We were also given our advent calendars at this time so that we could count down the days until Christmas.

One thing that my parents always did in regards to tradition was that each of us got a huge orange and apple in our stockings.

When I moved out and got married I told my husband that I wanted to start new traditions for us and our upcoming family and he was on board. I think all families need to have traditons or start them.

One of the big things for me was not putting up  our tree until after December 5th and that is because that’s my birthday. Growing up my birthday never truly felt special for me because all around me was Christmas decorations and money was usually tight for the family with Christmas so close so that meant if I wanted something really special I ended up getting it only at Christmas.

Anyways back to my story (hehe) so every year we have a real tree and the last few years we made it a point to go and cut our tree down at a tree farm with one of our closest friends.

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Getting ready to cut the tree down.

We usually let the tree sit over night and then we decorate it.

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Which leads me to our next traditon and that is each year we buy special ornaments for ourselves. So by the time my 11 year old moves out he will have his own starter set of ornaments and he then can continue the tradition with his family.

As you can see from last years tree we have many of them on the tree.

What are your favorite traditions?

All I Want For Christmas Is… #3

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Danya from A Tapestry of Words started this fun little feature on her blog called All I Want For Christmas Is… and basically what you do is share your wishlist of books. I thought that this would be something fun to do perhaps on a weekly bases until Christmas. Can you believe we are a little over a month to go?

I am no where near being started so over the next few weeks I will be shopping, shopping and more shopping for gifts for my family and two Secret Santas I am taking part in. Are you ready?

Here is my 5 books this week:

 

Blogmas 2014 – The 25 Days of Christmas

As I am slowly wrapping up my posts for the 30 Days, 30+ Pre-Scheduled Blog Posts I was thinking about taking part in Blogmas this year.

If you are on YouTube you know that a good majority of the vloggers are doing a vlogmas next month, which is very popular and you commit to post a vlog daily in the whole month of December. I was thinking of doing a YouTube one but I think that will have to wait until next year because there is just so much on my plate right now that I don’t think I could fit that into my daily life. Although I could do basically one take and not editing, we will see.

So in its place for right now I am going to be doing Blogmas instead and basically I am committing to posting every day this month. I hope you will stop in daily to see the posts.

I was looking online to see what bloggers were going to do this blogmas and I found Sandra from Diary of a Stay at Home Mom and she posted this prompt list to make it easier to do the Blogmas.

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Will you be doing Blogmas 2014?

Counting down the days until Christmas 2014

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Growing up I always had a chocolate advent calendar to count down the days until Christmas and its something that I have always done when I moved out, got married and had Michael. Its something that we still do to this day.

Granted we have added to our advent countdown as you will see. It was a few years ago when we moved from those cheapie chocolate ones (you know the ones that the chocolate just taste blah?) to the yummy Lindt ones that we all love. Once Michael got a little older we started to add another one to his countdown and its the Lego one. He absolutely loves the Lego one. He gets to eat a little chocolate and build a toy daily until Christmas.

So this year we will be doing the following Advent calendars and I plan on doing a daily post and vlog (it will be one of those one takes no editing kind) talking about them.

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The Lego City Advent Calendar #60063. I always purchase this once it comes out because sometimes they are hard to find.

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The Lindt advent calendar has a delicious piece of chocolate daily.

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David’s Tea has brought out their 24 days of Tea again. This one is always hard to find. I literally stalk their facebook page to find out when its going to be on sale and get my butt to the store on that day before it opens. I really enjoy this one because you get to try a new and different tea every day in December. Plus you always get a few cups out of the leaves.

 

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Finally the last advent calendar is from Starbucks and I have literally been trying to get one of these for quite some time now so imagine my surprise when I was in Chapters one weekend and we went to Starbucks. There was literally two left so of course I had to nab this one.

Do you do Advent calendars? If so which ones?

Next year I am thinking of making my own, have you done this?

Be sure to come back daily in December to see what goodies we got in our advent calendar.

All I Want For Christmas #2

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Danya from A Tapestry of Words started this fun little feature on her blog called All I Want For Christmas Is… and basically what you do is share your wishlist of books. I thought that this would be something fun to do perhaps on a weekly bases until Christmas. Can you believe we are a little over a month to go?

I am no where near being started so over the next few weeks I will be shopping, shopping and more shopping for gifts for my family and two Secret Santas I am taking part in. Are you ready?

Here is my 5 books this week:

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(I love the cover of this book, don’t you?)

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thesebrokenstars

theboywiththehiddenname

(This is the 2nd book in the series)

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(This is the 2nd book in the series)

Are any of these books on your wishlist?

All I Want For Christmas #1

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I admit I am a little behind in my blog reading this past little while but I decided today since we had our hockey game early enough in the day that I would spend the afternoon getting caught up on my blog reading since we had not other plans for the day.

Danya from A Tapestry of Words started this fun little feature on her blog called All I Want For Christmas Is… and basically what you do is share your wishlist of books. I thought that this would be something fun to do perhaps on a weekly bases until Christmas. Can you believe we are a little over a month to go?

I am no where near being started so over the next few weeks I will be shopping, shopping and more shopping for gifts for my family and two Secret Santas I am taking part in. Are you ready?

I am thinking of doing a list of 5 books each week. Please let me know if you have ready any of these titles.

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Are any of these books on your wishlists?