The title of this blog article sounds suspicious, doesn't it? But don't worry, no chicanery involved. Maggie and I have decided that we want to more intentionally celebrate the twelve day Christmas season and so we've been thinking about how best to do it. The idea we've come up with is to "plan" a specific Christmas tradition for each day of Christmas... so that each day of Christmas (over the years) becomes infused with its own particular festive note. This is what we've come up with:
Day 1: attend the Christ Mass at church; open Santa gifts
Day 2: make a birthday cake and sing "Happy Birthday Jesus"
Day 3: take an evening drive to view Christmas lights
Day 4: have a Christmas carol singing night
Day 5: celebrate Christmas according to Ethiopian traditions
Day 6: go Christmas sledding and/or make a snowman
Day 7: sort through toys and donate some to needy children
Day 8: make a Christmas project to give to homebounds
Day 9: visit 2–3 homebound members of the church
Day 10: read the Christmas story using the King James version
Day 11: Watch Christmas specials (any that we missed on TV)
Day 12: gather all received Christmas cards and pray for the senders
Since not all of these days are vacation-type days, the order of events may be switched around from year to year, but this is the order we are trying this year. Nor do we yet have any idea how to do day #5, but we're started to research it. Anyone out there have any ideas?
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