Christmas – Page 2

Outfit of the Day: Embrace the Teddy Bear Brown

Recipe of the Day: Broccoli Salad

Broccoli Salad 2-3 brunches of fresh broccoli1/2 sweet onion1 cup shredded cheddar cheese1/2 cup sunflower seeds1/2 cup bacon, crumbledDressing:1 cup mayonnaise1/2 cup sugar2-3 tablespoons red wine vinegar Make the dressing first, whisk the sugar into the mayonnaise, and then add the vinegar. Refrigerate while you make the salad. Cut up the broccoli into small flowers.Continue reading “Recipe of the Day: Broccoli Salad”

This Christmas

Trying to do more of these things this year. But there are some people and things that I’m just not ready to forgive and forget yet.

Outfit of the Day: Home for the Holidays

Christmas Trees: Christian or Pagan

This meme makes the rounds this time of the year by both conservative Christians (especially JW’s and Fundamentalist Mormons) and Pagans as “proof” of why Christians should not have a Christmas tree (and then they still INSIST that Christmas is totally Christian.) Both are wrong. Jeremiah 10 is not saying that Christians shouldn’t have aContinue reading “Christmas Trees: Christian or Pagan”

St Nicholas Day

Be sure to hang your socks tonight, tomorrow is St. Nicholas Day. Or use your shoes, or boots, or wooden clogs. My kids hung stockings twice, once on December 5th and again on December 24th. For St. Nicholas day they got oranges, candy canes, little red net bags of gold foil-covered chocolate coins, real coins,Continue reading “St Nicholas Day”

Outfit of the Day: Happy Holidays

Recipe of the Day: Lemon-Topped Gingerbread

I made this every Christmas for my kids, they didn’t care for gingerbread cut-out cookies, but they loved the gingerbread cake. The lemon topping is like lemon curd and then we topped both with whipped cream. It’s still a favorite of mine. Lemon-Topped Gingerbread 1/2 cup all-purpose flour1/2 cup whole wheat flour1/4 cup molasses1/4 cupContinue reading “Recipe of the Day: Lemon-Topped Gingerbread”

The Meaning of the Christmas Song “12 Days of Christmas”

It’s just barely the beginning of December, and already I’ve seen three posts that claim that the song “The 12 Days of Christmas” is a Christian code for Biblical teachings. This has been going around online for about 25 years. Just because someone posts it and insists that they found it on the Internet doesn’tContinue reading “The Meaning of the Christmas Song “12 Days of Christmas””