Holidays & Traditions
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PREPARING THE HEARTS OF OUR FAMILY
PREPARING THE HEARTS OF OUR FAMILY For Thanksgiving, we like to prepare our family’s hearts for the season — using movies and media to help turn us towards the covenant ‘fathers and mothers’…
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A NEW YEAR CELEBRATION ACCORDING TO WILFORD WOODRUFF
The Book of Mormon readathon had just come to an end and I was thinking, “okay, now what?” There has to be something for New Year’s Day equivalent to what we just experienced…
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A BOOK OF MORMON CHRISTMAS
This last year for the month of December we thought we would do something totally different for our “non-commercialized” Christmas. Non-commercialized for us means, no tree, forced gifts, hung stockings, and cheesy parties.…
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PREPARING FOR THE FEAST OF DEDICATION
Another year of candle lighting, fried bread, and 8 nights of singing has come to an end! Oh, how we love Hanukkah! This truly has become our all-time family favorite feast! We look…
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HOW WE REPLACED SANTA WITH JESUS CHRIST
Stores and radio stations have already begun to prepare us for this Christmas season, bringing out their decorations and playing Christmas music much earlier than the day after Thanksgiving which was once the…
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JUST CALL ME A HALLOWEEN “SCROOGE”
Year after year my children, husband, and I would grab a bag of candy of everyone’s choice, then after a warm bowl of chili, we would retire to the basement, turn off the…
