This past weekend we pulled out our Christmas ornamentation along with our "get in the Christmas spirit" stories, movies, and music. Tonight I pulled out a rather old red binder and started to read some of the stories that were in it to my children and I realized that some of these stories are REALLY old. From the 70's kind of old. I guess that makes them retro. Who knew I was cool?
Anyway, it struck me that a Christmas Story Binder idea would be so easy to share with all of you, perhaps you already have one, but just in case you don't, get started!
Our Christmas binder has stories that have been ripped out of magazines. This is one of my mother's favorite hobbies, ripping apart magazines and newspapers and sorting them into her little labled piles, so she can go back and find that article she might need with tips on hiking in the Outback. At any rate, she also pulled out Christmas stories and kept them together in a folder and later I put them into a binder.
The neat thing here is that you can also add your own family favorite stories of Uncle Ed feeding the homeless every year on Christmas and how he lost his wedding ring in the meatloaf or how Grandma opened up her gift of a small T.V. and had no idea what it was. Maybe you could add the cute things your children have said. It doesn't matter, just make it a book of all your favorite Christmas stories, songs, and memories.
Then every year you can read them over and over again. Maybe you could make a copy of your book for gifts to family members.
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