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Coming this next week!!

Merry and Bright is releasing this coming Monday on a Kindle or Kindle app near you!!

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Merry Christmas, friends!!

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  4. We celebrate on the 24th so I love sleeping in on the 25th, reading my new books and having salmon on toast for breakfast. 🙂

  7. Watching Christmas movies! 🙂 My favorite, kind of personal tradition is watching Little Women (Winona Ryder version) every year. 🙂 And I have been trying to find some new ones this year that my whole family will like. 🙂

  9. There are lots of Christmas traditions I love but I'm going to share our most unique! For the past several years we've had a couple over on Christmas who are close friends and have no kids of their own. They own a Chick-fil-a so every Christmas morning they bring chick-fil-a chicken nuggets with honey buns for breakfast. It is one of the most amazing things!

  10. It's so hard to pick just one but my favorite tradition would be spending time with family. Watching holiday movies, listening to Christmas music, going to mass, and baking in a warm kitchen are truly some of the best moments of the season.

  11. Getting together with my brothers, sisters and parents on Christmas Eve and reading the Christmas account, having Stromboli, opening presents and hanging out. 🙂 Of course listening to Christmas music, too.

  12. My favorite Christmas tradition would have to be watching Home Alone with my family on Christmas Eve. We never watch it any other time than on Christmas Eve, so that when I think of that movie, I get all these wonderful, magical, Christmas-y feelings. 🙂

  13. My favorite tradition has always been picking out and cutting down the perfect Christmas tree at a local tree farm, then putting it up in the living room and decorating it while wearing Santa hats and listening to Christmas music. We've gotten our tree at the same tree farm every year since my brothers and I were kids; this year, we put up our tree early, as my dad was on hospice and rapidly declining. He was able to help search out the perfect tree one last time, just one week before he passed away. I'm so grateful to have so many good memories of tree hunting and decorating over the years and that we had one last tree hunt together this year!

  14. Favorite Christmas tradition at home is seeing family and going on a hay ride to go caroling around the neighborhood. Favorite tradition at school is listening to my Kindergarteners recite Luke 2:8-16

  15. My favourite Christmas tradition is having christmas breakfast with my parents and brothers. Such a nice and quiet way to start the day with the family 🙂

  17. My favourite traditions are getting to have something special for breakfast on Christmas morning, like croissants, and spending the afternoon just chillin' with our new presents. Last year, for example, my brothers had a water fight (I live in NZ so Christmas is hot) while I lay on my bed reading my new books. Can't get much better than that 🙂

  19. Our family opens one special present on Christmas eve, and celebrates the birth of Jesus by breaking bread and reading the Christmas story! 🙂

  20. My favourite Christmas tradition is gathering after church on Christmas eve and eating yummy goodies and talking with my family before we open presents 🙂

  23. Going to church on Christmas Eve with the kids, come home to a wonderful ham dinner, reading Twas the Night Before Christmas to the kids, tucking them into bed and then staying up all night with my husband wrapping presents and watching A Christmas Story marathon 🙂

  25. Because of my parents crazy work schedule growing up dad would fix biscuits and gravy Christmas morning while mom was at work. We would then meet at the grandparents for Christmas dinner and gifts. Then while dad was at work that night we would watch Christmas cartoons with mom and eat Chinese food for dinner.

  26. Growing up, We used to get boxes of oranges and take them to our friends and play the handbells. It was fun! We'd also drive around looking for Christmas lights.

  29. Growing up my siblings and I (I'm the oldest of 4) had a unique tradition that I really miss! We'd get up early and make breakfast then stand outside my parents bedroom door singing Christmas carols to wake them up. When they came out everyone got to grab some food and coffee and sit around the Christmas tree. We'd draw numbers and opened gifts in the order we drew so that no one would miss seeing their gift being opened. I'm really looking forward to developing our own special family traditions with my little ones!

  34. I love making sugar cookies from scratch with my parents. We aren't very good bakers, but it doesn't matter if the cookies are made with love, right? 🙂

  35. I love bundling up every year with my family and walking around the neighborhood admiring everyone's lights and decorations! Coffee and hot chocolate is a must, of course 🙂

  36. My family goes out on Christmas eve every year to look at Christmas lights. Our family is already pretty big, but with the addition of my brothers-in-law and my nephew – we don't all fit into one car. We've recently taken to borrowing a bus so that we can still go out together in one vehicle.

  37. I love waking up and having a big Christmas breakfast with my family before opening presents and then just lounging around the rest of the day playing games or watching a movie.

  38. One of my favorite Christmas traditions is to make Christmas candy with my family. We make all kinds of candy including, chocolate covered pretzels, truffles, caramel cups, and many others.

  44. A family tradition that started when my brother and I were just kids, is that before the Christmas Eve service at church, we'd always have Pizza Hut pizza, and when we got home from the service, we'd get to open one present. Thirty years later, we still usually follow the tradition. In recent years when we haven't, my brother and I have both commented how weird it seems to not do things "the right way" 🙂

  46. As a family we draw for Secret Santa on Thanksgiving. On Christmas Eve we get to open our present from our Secret Santa. A Christmas Story is also always playing in the background.

  48. My favorite Christmas tradition is light looking with my family on Christmas Eve. We all pile into our big van with my grandparents and get dinner and go looking at lights 🙂

  49. My favourite Christmas tradition we have in my family is receiving one small present in our stockings that we open on Christmas morning that we can take/wear to church. We then go to church as a family and then open all the rest of our presents after we get home.

  50. I have always enjoyed that my mom would make breakfast for my brother's family and mine for Christmas morning. Good food and family all in one!

  53. My favorite Christmas tradition is going to the town parade. We all get bundled in warm clothes and huddle in the car singing carols while we wait for the band to come marching around the bend. Then we jump out and get closer to watch all the lighted floats sail by while everyone in the parade and on the sidelines is shouting Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!!!

  54. There's a church near me that puts on Handel's Messiah every year. Anyone who wants to sing goes and rehearses for a few hours and then we put on a performance that night. I love going with my extended family each year and singing. It's always a fantastic way to remember what Christmas is really about 🙂 and I nearly always lose my voice singing the Hallelujah chorus…

  55. Eating Mom's gingerbread cookies. I had to make my own this year since work prevents me from seeing my family on Christmas. Second time is the charm. :3

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