Christmas with Kids » snow http://christmaswithkids.com naughty and nice Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:44:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 67: Time Machine Fun http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/67-time-machine-fun/ http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/67-time-machine-fun/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:01:00 +0000 Mama Elf http://christmaswithkids.com/?p=521

Look at Christmas photos from your childhood with your children! Kids of all ages love this. My kids love seeing pictures of me at their ages. The photo above is about 31 years old, and it’s me when I was 10 years old.

]]> http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/67-time-machine-fun/feed/ 0 98: Where will you spend Christmas this year? http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/98-where-will-you-spend-christmas-this-year/ http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/98-where-will-you-spend-christmas-this-year/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:37 +0000 Mama Elf http://christmaswithkids.com/?p=77 We live very close to our entire family, so our biggest complication is determining how we are going to exchange gifts. When I was a kid, we often had grandparents travel to our house for Christmas. All of the grandparents had worked out a schedule with their kids that seemed to work out. Sometimes we traveled to the grandparents’ houses, but that can be very complicated with a car full of kids, I imagine.

While being involved in professional music ministry, traveling for Christmas has never really been an option. For the first time in about 20 years, I didn’t have a gig this past Christmas Eve, so, I felt like we could host our families for Christmas dinner. Since that day (that I will talk about tomorrow,) we have seriously contemplated traveling over Christmas. It would be a lot of fun with the kids and it would give us a break from some of the commercialism. How fun would a “Camping Christmas Trip” be? I’ve had other friends go on a Christmas Cruise and I heard nothing but good things about that.

I think that having Christmas at home or grandparents’ houses is almost a necessity with little children. When the kids become teenagers, a traveling Christmas might hold more appeal.

Another attractive travel holiday option might be to rent a mountain cabin in a (hopefully) snowy locale. If you don’t have plans for Christmas, yet, you need to get cracking on your holiday plans!

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