Description of the Coloring Page: ornaments, lights, stars,
electric bubble lights, stars, bell, small boy and girl, brother and
sister, Christmas tree, decorating, doggy bone, dog bed, puppy, a pet for Christmas
We whispered a hint to good Saint Nick, "This year, please bring us a pet." Under the tree we looked, quick, quick, And saw that Santa didn't forget.
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was written and illustrated by Christina Schoenherr.
For weeks Sis and Billy had been talking about Christmas and buying presents for friends and the rest of the gang, even Patches the poor boy down the street. At last the great day arrived! The night before Sis and Billy hung up their stockings by their fireplaces! Then all excited they ran quickly in to their beds to wait for Santa to com down their chimneys. Bright and early, Sis and Billy looked under their Christmas trees to see what Santa had brought them! Billy heard a funny little noise and what do you think he found? A dear little puppy. Sis heard a meow and there was a darling kitten. Then Billy ran over to show Sis and Katy his pet. Sid showed Billy hers too. But the biggest surprise of all was waiting for them in Curly Cassidy's barn, a lovely colt for each of them! Sis and Billy agreed it was the nicest Christmas they had ever had. The End.
Description of the Coloring Page: ornaments, lights, stars, electric bubble lights, stars, bell, small boy and girl, brother and sister, Christmas tree, decorating
The time has come to trim the tree And oh, how pretty it will be With Christmas ornaments so bright And every bough aglow with light.
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"The very thought of it thrills me. The pictures of a crimson-clad Santa Claus, a shining tree, a dining table groaning beneath its burden immediately flash through my mind. And then, upon deeper reflection these thoughts seem cheap and superficial in comparison with the emotions I feel somewhere deep down in my heart when Christmas Eve ushers in the real Christmas holidays. Christmas Eve-this is the children's night. How I like to hear their sweet, piping voices retelling the old, yet ever new story of the birth of the Christ Child; and as accompaniment the old, familiar carols. Somehow, I never seem to tire of them. However, I look forward most to Christmas morning with its exciting first glimpse of the Christmas tree. It stands there in the half-darkness, just loaded with cheer and good will, adorned with popcorn strings, glittering ornaments and striped candy canes. But to me the early morning candlelight service is most appealing-the white-robed choir in procession, holding aloft fiery-tipped tapers‚ the clear, soft tones of the chimes as they play "Silent Night" and the echoing strains of the carols of joyous groups of boys and girls outside. This peacefulness of an early Christmas morning shows Christmas in its true sense. Not in the light of the tinseled glitter and glamour of the modern world, but in that of the glorious radiance shed over those quiet fields at the announcement of the first Christmas." by Lois Ann Meyer, Age 16
"I am the light of the world." This is one of those short, pregnant statements of our Lord characteristic of this Gospel, which impress us at once by their brevity, their beauty, and their largeness of meaning. Statements of a similar kind, of equal terseness and force, occur to every one - "I am the good shepherd"; "I am the resurrection, and the life"; "I am the way, and the truth, and the life."
Sometimes Jesus gathers His work and nature up in one descriptive word, and offers it, as it were out of a wide-open hand, complete to His disciples. In such a word all the details of His relation to the soul and to the world are comprehensively included. As the disciple listens and receives it, he feels all his fragmentary and scattered experiences drawing together and rounding into unity. As, having heard it, he carries it forth with him into his life, he finds all future experiences claiming their places within it, and getting their meaning from it. Such words of Jesus are like spheres of crystal into which the world is gathered, and where the past and future, the small and great, may all be read.
What Divine audacity there is in such sayings! and how little we can suppose them to be the sayings of a mere teacher or prophet! They have no parallel in the words of even the greatest teachers. One and all imply something which the most powerful and enlightened, conscious of their own capacities to communicate truth or to do good, would scruple to arrogate to themselves. They might claim respect for the truth they speak, and summon men to attend to it with a voice of authority. But no merely human teacher would dare to make himself the center of all truth, and the center of the world.
It was indeed a magnificent word, a stupendous word. It is one of those sayings of our Lord which prove that never man spake as this Man. It is utterly unaccountable and inexplicable save on one assumption. It either makes us tremble with a shock of surprise, with a feeling of doubt which we wish to crush down as blasphemy, or it brings us to our knees in worship, as before One who is lifted immeasurably above the ordinary limitations of humanity. There are only two possible conclusions to which we can come concerning such words as these. They are either the wildest words of audacity and self-deluded egotism that human lips ever uttered, or they are the language of one who was Better, far above all human criticism and judgment by His real and unmistakable Divinity. Had such a claim as this been made by the greatest teacher, prophet, or apostle of the ancient world, his words and memory would long since have perished in the scorn and disgust which it would have provoked ; and were such a claim advanced by any person in the present day, there would be a universal feeling that mental derangement was at the base of it. No wonder that the men who listened to Him were either filled with indignation or inspired with reverential awe. No wonder that He seemed to them either a blasphemer or the Son of God. There could be no middle course. It was certain that the person who talked in this way would either be scorned and hated and crucified by the world or lifted by adoring hearts wholly above the world in love and honor and supremacist adoration. And no middle course has ever been possible for long. Men have never continued to reverence Him as a man unless they have learned to worship Him as God. It is difficult to trust Him at all unless we trust Him all in all. These words are either so extravagant or so sublime, that the Man who spoke them was guilty of a self-conceit unparalleled in human history, or He was higher than the highest human thought can reach and not to be addressed save in the worshipful words of Thomas, "My Lord and my God." We have ever to make our choice, and most of us have made it to our heart's rest and joy. We are sure that He knew what He was saying and had Divine right to say it: "I am the light of the world." Hastings
Miniature sea horses made from cotton batting in four colors: pink, lavender, coral and blue.
These sweet little sea horses are not found under the sea...but hanging from our family feather tree. Paint them pinks, lavenders, and blues and sprinkle with glitter too!
Supply List:
acrylic paints in pastel colors
white cupcake liners
translucent glitter
white school glue
hot glue gun and glue
one chenille stem per sea horse
puff paints for eyes
Step-by-Step Instructions:
Cut a chenille stem into approx. half length.
Unravel several cotton balls and set these aside.
Shape the bottom end into a spiral. Shape the opposite end into a hook for the head of the sea horse. Both of these ends will be reworked later but having them bent early will help you to understand the proportions of the sea horse as you work.
The belly of the sea horse will require you to build up more batting than you will need at either end.
Layer white glue and batting fuzz around the belly first.
Now unbend the hooked head and gradually twist batting around the chenille end to bulk up the head area. Bend this end back in place and compare it with the photos of mine. When you are satisfied with your results let the head dry and harden.
Now do the same for the spiral tail. You will need far less cotton batting for this end. Make the application of cotton far less and gradually smooth it down from the underside of the sea creature's belly.
Bend the spiral tail back into place and let it dry completely.
Add pastel color washes to your sea horse.
Cut small rippled sections of the white cupcake liner for the dorsal and pectoral fins and glue them in place with hot glue.
Paint the fins
Paint on the eyes using puff paints to make them more dimensional
Smear on a bit of white school glue and sprinkle on glitter.
The March of The Chocolate Soldiers by Margaret McBride Hoss
The Chocolate soldiers are marching to-day Through the heart of Candyville town. Down Marshmallow Street, With measured beat, Stride the ranks of butternut brown
Tramp-tramp-tramp-tramp- To the roll of sugar-plum drum, Heads erect. Step correct, The chocolate soldiers come!
March-march-march-march- Not a chocolate soldier lags, Left . . right . . . They pass from sight 'Mid a flutter of peppermint flags!
My eldest daughter loves hydrangea. She has several of these growing in our lawn and displays them lovingly about the house fresh or dried year round. Frankly, I'm surprised she had not thought to include these in an ornament sooner...
Supply List:
hollow, clear bauble and clip on cap
dried hydrangea petals
vintage lace
To make the ornament, she gently pushed the dried petals through the opening at the top of the hollow glass ornament until the bauble was full. Then she replaced the cap, added a hook and tied a lace bow about the top! This would make a quick and easy craft for those of you who love to decorate the Christmas tree using plants from your garden.
Both William and Hannah are tucked in tight and dreaming of the toys Santa might bring. Use the pictures included in the sheet below to help you unscramble the toys of their dreams.
Children with visions of toys dancing in their heads...
