Wrapping Up the Holidays
Friday, January 7, 2011
Two Special Traditions

Define “Over”
For some, the tree is out on the curb the day after Christmas as they breathe sighs of relief that the radio station has returned to its regular play-list. Many continue to indulge in holiday celebrations through New Year’s, often starting the new year by cleaning up holiday messes or resolving to lose those holiday pounds. Some of us aren’t ready to bid the joy of the holidays farewell on the first, so we decided to choose a more historical date to mark the end of our season: January 6, or Epiphany. Traditionally celebrated to commemorate the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem, Epiphany is significant in the symbolism of holiday gift-giving.
A Gift from the Heart
I received a copy of The King’s Christmas List
Saving a Little Christmas
Our second tradition was inspired by a book discovered at our library, The Tree that Came to Stay
I allowed myself a holiday break, but I hope I still have some faithful readers with some book suggestions to link-up and share! I’ll also be linking up at Read.Explore.Learn with JDaniel4’s mom to spread the word that Feed Me Books Friday is back and meet some new friends!
If you have ideas to make Christmas clean-up a little more fun, I’d love to hear about them!


Disclosure of Material Connection: I received The King’s Christmas List free from the publisher through the BookSneeze.com
4 comments:
Hi Annie! I'm so glad you're back! ☺ I was hoping it would be today since I finally did another Bookworm Beginnings post. Unfortunately, I lack the thoughts and right words to tell about a book as nicely as you do so my post is just the book images.
Those two books sound like they're perfect for Christmas reading. I'm especially intrigued by The King's Christmas List because of it's spiritual take.
I have no good suggestions for Christmas clean-up. Some of my stuff is still huddled together waiting to be put back in the right boxes. I really hate seeing the Christmas season end.
I hope you enjoyed your holidays and break!
Anne, I still haven't sent my cards out yet!!! It's on my list for this week.
Love that King's Christmas book, too. We got it this year.
I am so glad you are back. I will mention it in next Friday's post. The books look great. The second one is my favorite.
I just took down Christmas decorations this week.
The Tree that Came to Stay sounds like the perfect book for us today. We're taking down our tree.
I'm ashamed to admit we're also late with our cards this year...for the first time since we've been married. December and Christmas kind of snuck up on me this year for some reason.
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