Book Review: Cole Family ChristmasOne of my favorites lessons to teach with my 8th grade Lanuage Arts students is a unit on oral history when the have the opportunity to interview famly members, capturing both family hetitage and tradition. After reading Cole Family Christmas for the first time, I was reminded of the value of this unit as the book's orgins are deeply routed the oral history of one family's unique Christmas experience. "Cole Family Christmas is a delightful story about a coal-mining family of eleven in the Appalachian Mountains who learns that love and togetherness far surpass material things" written by Hazel Cole Kendle and her gradedaughter-in-law Jennifer Liu Bryan. Reading it aloud with your children or grandchild, the story of one Cole Family Christmas will become a family tradition in itself.
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well we make cookies or fudge for the neighbors and friends...but we always make homemade ormanents for the tree.
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Every Christmas Eve my family like to drive around the neighborhoods near where we live and look at all the holiday decorations and displays people have at their homes. We love to have a contest and name the best house, the worst house, the tackiest house and so forth. The kids look forward to this each and every year.
My kids also love to make gifts for their grandparents, Godparents and great-grandfather. They also enjoy going to the Dollar Store with some $$$ and buying gifts for everyone too. It's sweet to see what they pick out for someone and find out the reasons why. Like one year my son bought a mug for Grandpa because Grandpa likes coffee and he likes dogs (it had a cartoon dog on it). Sweet things like that.
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We like to watch A Christmas Story
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Our family tradition is that everyone gets a new pair of jammies (the funnier the better) on CHristmas Eve.
That way everone looks cute for pictures the next day.
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Our family tradition is I have all my kids and grandkids over to have a Christmas dinner,swap gifts,play games and just have a wonderful time. I can't have eveyone over too often because my family has grown so much theres 16 of us. I just love the holidays.
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We always decorate the Christmas tree w/ the ornaments I've collected all my life (and now the girls are starting their own collections as well), I love the fun of putting them on in no particular order, the "hodge podge" look of it all . . . and all the memories that are tied in w/ our tree. And the girls love hearing the stories behind some of the ornaments as we hang them.
We are German so we have St. Nicholas day and the 6th we put the christmas list in a shoe on the window seal and Santa comes and gets the list and fills it with little toys and candies :)
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Each year we make homemade nativity scenes: painted sculptures, sewn, drawn, baked, etc. Last year my niece and nephew came, and we made an edible gingerbread nativity. As we decorated the cookies, we told the nativity story. Our 2-yr old nephew was rapt. :)
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We like to bake to take to the neighbors and our postman. Would love to win.
We don't have a whole lot of traditions (mostly because I always forget what we tried to start!) but that came with me from my childhood is having "Christmas Morning Rolls" (aka: Monkey Bread) on Christmas morning. Yummy!
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wow what a grate book and well as for traditions in my home well we have a lot of them and well one of them is on x mas eve we open one gift. thanks
We don't really have a lot of traditions but we do decorate our home every year with decorations our daughter made throughout her childhood!
We watch It's a Wonderful Life as we decorate the tree.
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We watch Christmas Vacation every year before Christmas.
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I love to drive around and look at holiday lights
we always watch A Christmas Story
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We put a Christmas puzzle together every year.
We make a family gingerbread house on Christmas Eve every year!
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My kids are young, so we are just getting started on our own traditions. One we started last year is watching all the holiday specials (Charlie Brown, Rudolph, etc) together and eating popcorn.
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I like listening to the caroloers at my local Barnes and Noble.
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Christmas eve dinner with my father and brothers and watching my children on Christmas morning.
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I SHOULD have said leave a comment with your favorite holiday tradition beacuse these are great stories.
My mom and sister and I always get together the Saturday before Christmas and make cookies.
our favorite is decorating the house together :)
Our favorite holiday tradition is decorating sugar cookies!
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My favorite holiday tradition is the Christmas dinner my family usually gets together for. We typically have such a good time together every Christmas. This is a great giveaway and I really hope I win. Thanks.
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